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VALUABLE INFORMATION 


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OV OOHGRESS 

iwAMINGTON 


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the yeir One Thousand Eight Hundred 

and Seventy-Five, 

By H . T. HAM, 

, Jn the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 














INTRODUCTION. 



In the compilation of this little work an effort has 
been made to exhibit a distinct view of the essential phe¬ 
nomena and principles pertaining to the various subjects 
which it embraces, with an especial endeavor to avoid the 
extremes of unsatisfactory brevity on the one hand and of 
fatiguing prolixity of detail and discussion on the other. 

As I desire not to indulge in controversial discussion 
and speculation in this brief publication will mediate 
between the two extremes. My object has been to give a 
digest of facts and established principles rather than of 
opinions and points of disputation. The chief element 
prompting this compilation, and the grand leading prin¬ 
ciple suggestive of its introduction is not so much to inter¬ 
fere with any other existing system of detecting counter¬ 
feits, but that I desire to bring before the public briefly a 
system of detecting counterfeits which is substantially 
applicable to the present currency, which I have system¬ 
atically arranged, comprising ten rules: the first of which 
I discovered in the year 1855, by a comparison of notes 
purporting to be upon the bank of Louisville, Kentucky. 
A close examination of the notes revealed the fact that the 
one was a genuine note and the other a counterfeit. Hav¬ 
ing in view the fact that all genuine notes should be per¬ 
fect in every respect, a discrepancy was discovered in the 
shading of the letters in the name of the bank. That in 
the genuine being in accordance with rule 1st, the lead¬ 
ing features of which were put together with a hope of 
their contributing in some measure to facilitate the most 
difficult and important part of-a commercial education* 



4 


INTRODUCTION. 


Since the discovery of this important rule I have applied it 
in many instances with perfect success, and in every case 
where the ruling or shading on a note did not correspond 
with the teaching of this rule the same was found invari¬ 
ably to be a counterfeit. A careful and continual exam¬ 
ination of currency, with the knowledge of the one rule 
mentioned, revealed the fact that there were other im¬ 
portant features to be observed in the detection of coun- 
feits, a knowledge of which I had none, and was com¬ 
pelled to postpone indefinitely further action in the mat¬ 
ter; the interval, however, has not been thrown away, as 
I have endeavored to keep an eye open to every publica¬ 
tion or hint that would in any way contribute to the 
efficacy of the system, and have availed myself of every 
opportunity of procuring that which I deemed most valu¬ 
able and instructive upon the subject, an evidence of 
which will be seen by a careful examination of the rules 
in which are represented all the important features char¬ 
acteristic of a genuine Bank Note. 

The introduction of this pamphlet has been delayed 
beyond my expectation or intention, but its contents will 
be none the less useful or valuable, as there are many late 
discoveries embodied in the system that cannot be success¬ 
fully controverted, and, while I have every confidence in 
the efficacy and the applicability of the system, and its 
capacity to render perfect satisfaction to those who study 
and apply it, I am inclined to believe that there are a few 
who may consider it monotonous, and not sufficiently test 
its efficacy. 

For the benefit of such, will be added a variety of use¬ 
ful and interesting items which will induce them to keep 
the pamphlet within their reach, which will enable them 
to refer to the rules when necessary. There are, in addi¬ 
tion to the rules, many items of special interest and ser¬ 
vice to all classes, consisting, in part, of Biblical litera¬ 
ture, beginning with the Creation—giving births, deaths, 
and other principal events down to the birth of Christ, 
and the principle events from then to the present time. 
Many sketches from history, astronomy, geography, and 


INTRODUCTION. 5 

philosophy, together with a variety of statistical informa¬ 
tion ; all of which have been selected from the very best 
sources, and may be regarded as reliable and authorita¬ 
tive, thus furnishing to all classes a compendium of knowl¬ 
edge, for immediate reference and ready consultation. 
There is a vast amount of information which cannot be 
obtained by every one, because of the expense and the 
great amount of reading required in order to obtain the 
desired information ; this abridgement places it within 
the reach of every one. In addition to the many items 
mentioned, there will be found wonders, discoveries, in¬ 
ventions, fictitious names explained, the value and weight 
of wood and age of trees, and the origin of trees and 
plants, together with a number of valuable tables and 
recipes, all of which will be useful and valuable to all 
classes, and worth ten times the amount for which it can 
be purchased. 

Respectfully, 

H. T. HAM. 


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CERTIFICATES. 


Barry, Mo., March 30th, 1875. 

Mr. H. T. Ham —Dear Sir: I have carefully exam¬ 
ined your “Rules for Detecting Counterfeit Bank Notes,” 
and find them the best I have ever seen. I am, my dear 
sir, very respectfully and truly, yours, 

DAN. CARPENTER, 
Merchant, Barry, Mo. 

I have been shown by H. T. Ham a system of de¬ 
tecting counterfeit money, which I think is a very correct 
one, and would recommend it to any one desiring to be¬ 
come an expert in the business. C. J. WHITE, 

Cashier Kansas City Sayings Association. 

April 2d, 1875. 

Kansas City, Mo, April 2d, 1875. 

H. T. Ham, Barry, Mo. —Dear Sir: We have ex¬ 
amined your “Rules for Detecting Counterfeit Bank 
Notes, ” and take pleasure in recommending them to the 
public. Yours truly, 

THE WATKINS BANK, 

Kansas City, Mo. 

Leavenworth, Kas., March 13th, 1875. 

H. T. Ham, Esq., —Dear Sir: I have examined 
your system of detecting counterfeit bank notes, and think 
it is the best in use, and can be understood by almost any 
one in the habit of handling bank notes. 

Yours respectfully, 

W. B. HALYARD. 

I have examined the rules for detecting counterfeit 
bank notes, as taught by H. T. Ham, and believe them 
to be substantially applicable to the present currency. 

L. B. DOUGHERTY. ' 

Banker, Liberty, M. 

The rules herewith compiled by H. T. Ham are 
much needed by the public, and I take pleasure in recom¬ 
mending them to their favorable consideration. 

W. O. OLDHAM, Cashier, Platte City, Mo. 

I am familiar with the system as taught by H. T. 
Ham, and believe it very difficult for any one who is 
thoroughly acquainted with the same, to be imposed upon 
with a counterfeit note. M. T. SAMUEL, Barry, Mo. 

Believing that .the rules for detecting, compiled by 
H. T. Ham, are much needed. I cheerfully recom¬ 
mend them to the public. BEN. L. MAY, M. D. 

Barry, Mo., March 30th, 1875. 


RULES FOR 


DETECTING COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTES, 


The whole face of a genuine bank note should be a 
fine, even and steel-like engraving, and the lettering per¬ 
fect in every respect, bearing uniformity in workmanship, 
color, etc.; presenting a life-like appearance throughout 
its face. Anything to the contrary you may learn to de¬ 
tect with readiness by a close application to the following 
rules: 

Rule I. Parallel Ruling. —The most important rule to 
be observed is the shading of the letters in the name of 
the bank, and sometimes the denomination of a note in 
small letters. The lettering referred to has, generally, 
double shading. First, the solid shading adjoining the 
letter; second, the subjacent shading, which is always 
composed of small fine lines, making a perfect model of 
parallel ruling, which is sometimes parallel with the line 
of lettering, and at other times diagonally across the note, 
and are always perfectly parallel one with another and 
every line of the same size and the same distance apart; 
each line clearly and distinctly represented from one end 
to the other, forming a perfect block shade. This work 
is seldom well done in counterfeits. The lines are gen¬ 
erally irregular, uneven and scratchy, and not very 
straight; sometimes too fine, at others too course, and 
often the fine lines do not extend in harmony with the 
acute prominence of the letters, which would exhibit a 
very imperfect shade to the lettering. 

Rule II. Geometrical Lathe Work. —This work upon 
genuine notes is just as perfect in its execution as the 
shading of the letters. This work represents the back¬ 
ground of the denomination of a note, which may be 
either letters, figures or numbers ; sometimes in strips and 
sometimes in oblong or perfect circles near the corner 
of the note. This impression in the genuine is elegantly 
executed and engraved, so as to leave the entire ground 
composd of small fine lines which, together with the 
figure or figures representing the denomination of the note, 
are a showing of the original paper, the remainder of the 




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A COMPENDIUM OF 


die having been impressed with the color, leaving the figure 
and the line to stand out apparently as though it was 
raised. This work upon genuine notes very much re¬ 
sembles fine knit lace, and is perfect in every respect. 
The lines are fine, clear and regular, and cross each other 
as smoothly as so many hairs, and may be traced through 
out all their meanderings, showing as clearly in the open¬ 
ings of the figures as on the outside, forming the entire 
background of the denomination of the note into many 
uniform circles, cones, conic sections and squares, appar¬ 
ently interwoven into a delicate tissue of thread. This 
work in counterfeits is never perfect. Instead of uniform 
circles and squares composed of thread lines, you will 
often and generally find dots, and where there are lines 
they do not continue regular and smooth, and where they 
cross each other they break up into blurs, as the lines in 
many counterfeits are made with the ink and the remain¬ 
der of the die left open, and the ink lines are not shown 
smoothly as in the genuine and the figure appears to be on 
a level with the remainder of the work. 

Rule III. Medallion Work. —On all genuine bills this 
work is done by a medallion machine, and is just as per¬ 
fect in its form as the lathe work. On the ends of a note 
are ofte n s/ n heads or faces which appear to stand out or 
look as if raised above the general surface of the note. 
They are often side faces, and resemble heads as we see 
them on tft e coins or medals. This work is also com¬ 
posed of fine lines, but differing from that of lathe work, 
as in this they are made with the ink and in the lathe 
work they are left by the ink; they are similar to that of 
ruling and can be traced throughout the work, and are so 
nicely waved as to form figured work which looks to be 
raised and somewhat resemblts basrelief. The line run- 
across the face may be traced clear through the work. 
The face presents a natural fullness in the cheek—some 
pieces are so arranged that the lines cross each other in 
the centre; they cross fine and smooth, forming perfect 
squares, and where there should be prominence in feature 
there is a curve in the lines. 

This work in counterfeits is scratchy, the lines or dots 
irregular and uneven, and cannot be traced throughout 
the work, and very often a black line may be traced round 
the profile, which is never the case in the genuine. Such 
work is evidently done by inexperienced men, and has not 
the life-like appearance as in the gennine, but on the con¬ 
trary, appears flat and on the level with the surface of the 
note. 


VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


9 


In the counterfeits the eye has a dead, oppressive look, 
and-when closely examined will show only like a spot, 
not sight. 

Rule IV. Transfers. —This is two pieces of machine 
work on the face of a genuine bill and often on the back, 
which is precisely the same thing in every respect, because 
they are made by the same stamp. And in genuine notes 
where they appear to be the same the one will be found 
to be a facsimile of the other. You wfill often find those 
transfers representing the back ground or ground work of 
the denomination of a note, upon which will be placed 
either letters, figures or numbers, and if the same are 
genuine it will be easily seen that they are both alike. 

This work is comparatively poorly executed in the 
counterfeits, and a difference can invariably be seen by a 
minute examination of the same. Spurious bills differ 
from the genuine in many respects, and may have perfect 
transfers, but not always. 

The foregoing lules constitute the machine work of a 
genuine note, some of which may be seen on the face of 
any genuine note, and very often the whole four rules 
may be seen on the one or both sides of a good note. 
The above has reference to the back ground of the de¬ 
nomination of a note, commonly called the die. 

Rule V. The Engraving. —First: All lettering—large 
or small—upon a genuine note will be found to be per¬ 
fect in form, position and distance. Examine the small 
lettering representing the round hand writing, which 
is often imperfect in counterfeits; also, the small letter¬ 
ing in the border of the note and in the name of the en¬ 
graving company, which will be found on all genuine 
notes, and it is the finest of work and the most perfect 
lettering on a note. Counterfeiters seldom take pains to 
do this well, and often leave off the name of an engrav¬ 
ing company entirely, which will be sufficient to detect a 
bad note. 

Second . All scenery must be viewed as we see nature, 
for all work on genuine notes represents nature in most 
perfect order, giving a proper distance, size, shape and 
proportion to every object represented. Water scenes, 
landscapes, ships, boats, locomotives, etc., must be uni¬ 
form and workmanlike. 

Third : The vignettes- -no matter what they are—must 
be well proportioned and everything therein represented 
must be life-like. The human form perfect in every re¬ 
spect ; the eye will show the white and black, and appear 
as if alive ; cheeks look full; the hair fine and silky; 


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A COMPENDIUM OF 


hands, fingers, etc., perfect and proportionate, and the 
whole form apparently at ease. Animals should be just as 
perfect. Examine the ear, eye and hoof, and where birds 
or fowls are represented examine the feathers in the wing, 
eyes, claws, etc. In this you will find the finest engrav¬ 
ing known to the art. 

Fourth : The work of all genuine bank notes is en¬ 
graved by some bank note engraving company whose 
name will somewhere be found npon the note, Several 
men are employed to do the work of a genuine note, and 
neither one can do the work of another. Each piece of 
engraving is executed by a separate artist who arrives at 
perfection in that line, and for this reason in many in¬ 
stances you find the engraving in counterfeits compara¬ 
tively poor. 

Rule VI. Spurious Bills. —Such bills are different from 
the genuine, bearing no resemblance except where they 
were originally genuine. When a note does not proceed 
from the true source it is spurious. If an unfinished note 
is feloniously obtained from its true source and finished 
outside the engraving office, that part thus finished would 
be counterfeit. Hence the note is a spurious one with 
some good features, but the rest of the note unlike the 
genuine. Such notes will require close examination. 

Rule VII. Raised and Altered Bills —Altered 
bills are genuine bills of a small denomination where the 
letters, figures or numbers representing the same have been 
chemically or otherwise exti acted and higher figures print¬ 
ed in their stead. Then the shading of the letter and the 
ground of the denomination being re-engraved, may be 
detected as in counterfeits, the geometrical lathe work 
will appear too small to contain figures : such bills in 
some respects are similar to the spurious ; in all such sus¬ 
pected cases examine minutely upon the border the de¬ 
nomination of the note in small letters. 

Rule VIII. Engraved and Printed Signatures.— 
Upon all legal tender notes the name of the U. S. Treasu¬ 
rer and the register of the treasury are lithographed, and 
the entire work of the note is printed, there being no writ¬ 
ten signatures upon any note. Printed signatures are 
black and smooth, having the same appearance as the 
other print on the note, the lines smooth on either edge, 
showing as clearly on old notes as on new ones, as they 
never change their color but continue as bright as the 
other print, which is not the case with written signatures. 
Upon National Currency notes the names of Cashier and 
President are written and the U. S. Treasurer and the 


VALUABLE INFORMATION. II 

Register of the Treasury lithographed. The writing ink 
never bears the same color of the printed ink, it invaria¬ 
bly spreads a little, and the edges of the lines present a 
rough appearance, and as the note gets old the written 
signature fades 

Rule IX. The Complexion of a Bill. —This de¬ 
pends greatly upon the ink used in engraving; the best 
engravers prepare their own ink, which is bright and 
clear in all colors, and their printing carefully done. 
All this, added to perfect engraving, makes a complexion 
on the face of a genuine note greatly differing from that 
of a counterfeit. Everything represented has a clear nat¬ 
ural, life-like appearance. The prominence of this fea¬ 
ture in a genuine note is that which has so successfully 
guided the expert in the detection of counterfeits. Too 
many men rely entirely upon the judgment of others. Let 
every man be his own judge and study this as he did his 
arithmetic. 

Rule X. How to Study Bank Notes. —First: look 
at the whole face and general appearance of the note, and 
if genuine, it will present a life-like appearance—present¬ 
ing a beautiful picture, and the paper will appear to have 
been oiled—uniform in thickness, smooth and clear, and 
if counterfeit, the paper will appear dead, and the work 
upon the note will appear comparatively lifeless and 
if such is the case commence with rule ist, and study 
them one at a time, carefully and minutely, until the 
leading principles carried out in the same are thoroughly 
understood, at which time you will be able to detect at a 
glance any counterfeit note. 

The foregoing rules furnish many evidences of the fact 
that the art of engraving as applied to the execution of 
bank notes is very complicated in all its minutia and 
scarcely susceptible of being successfully imitated by any 
process of hand work within the reach of the whole com¬ 
bined talent of counterfeiters. The work of a genuine 
note is executed by several different men who are perfect 
in their respective places, who have the use of the very 
best machinery to assist them in the execution of the 
same. When bank plates were first made, the engravers 
did all their engraving with an instrument by hand. 
Counterfeiters now use the same kind of instruments, 
while the engravers of genuine notes are in possession of 
the ruling engine and the geometric lathe, which were 
first introduced by Spencer, in New London, in the State 
of Connecticut. Similar machinery is now being used 
by all bank note engravers, the weight and cost of which 


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A COMPENDIUM OF 


is very extensive, which could not be successfully handled 
in secret, consequently the counterfeiters resort to the 
hand plates, the work of which does not compare favora¬ 
bly with that of the genuine. That there must be some 
fixed rule by which counterfeits may be readily detected 
is conclusive within itself. A close examination of the 
rules reveal the fact that it would be very difficult to imi¬ 
tate the genuine by any process of hand-work without 
exhibiting some mark of discrepancy that would be de¬ 
tected by an application of the rules. There are frequent¬ 
ly special marks which may be readily detected by the 
use of the monthly detector or otherwise, such as the 
number of figures exhibited, number of buttons on coat, 
&c., but in all such cases, the same note will be found to 
be counterfeit by the application of the rules herewith, 
which will be found to be almost infallible. 


Chronological Table of the Bible*. 


A.M B.C. 

Age at 
birth of 
heir un¬ 
der birth 

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GIVING BIRTHS AND DEATHS OF PATRI- £ 
ARCHS, AND PRINCIPLE EVENTS. 

4 

1004 

Heaven and Earth created 




Adam the first man crea’ed and placed in 



paradise. 




Man falls from his first state; but is 



promised a savior. 


2 

1002 

Cain, Adam’s first son, born. 




Abel, Adam’s second son, born. 


129 

1875 

Cain and Abel offer sacrifice and Abel is 



slain. 


130 

3874 

Seth, Adam’s third son, born. . . 

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105 



j 

235 

7369 

Enos, son of Seth, born. 


90 






About this time men eall upon the name 



of the Lord 


325 

3679 

Cainan, son of Enos, born. 

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90 




395 

3609 

Mahalaleel, son of Cainan, born . . 


65 




460 

3454 

Jared, son of Mahalaleel, born . . . 


162 




622 

3382 

Enoch, son of Jared, and 7th 

from 

65 


Adam, born. 

• . 

687 

3317 

Methuselah, son of Enoch, born . , 


187 






Enoch walked with God 5300 years 


874 

3130 

Lamech, son of Mathuselah, and father 

182 


of Noah, born. 




first death 

930 

3074 

Adam dieth aged. 

930 

988 

3017 

Enoch, in the 365 year of his age, trails- 



lated 


1042 

2962 

Seth, father of Enos and 3d son of 

2d 



Adam, dieth aged.. . 

912 

1056 

2948 

Noah, the builder of the Ark, and son of 

502 


Lamech, born. 

. . 




3d 

1140 

2864 

Enos, father of Cainan, dieth aged. 

905 




4th 

12 55 

2761 

Cainan, “ Methuselah “ 

910 




5th 

1290 

2714 

Mahalaleel “ Jared 

895 




3th 

1422 

2582 

Jared Enoch “ 

962 

1535 

2469 

God commanded Noah to preach repent- 



ance and to build the ark 120years be- 



fore the flood. 


1556 

2448 

Noah aged 500 years. Japeth born 


1558 

2446 

Shem, son of Noah, born. 


98 


. 





7th 

1651 

2353 

Lamech, father of Noah, dieth aged 

777 



The first man to die a natural death be- 



fore his father 


1656 

2348 

Mathuselah, father of Lamech, dieth 

1 8th 



before the flood, aged. 


1656 

2348 

The flood came in the six hundredth year 



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THE SECOND AGE OF THE WORLD. 


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1658 

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2346 

1693 

30 

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1723 

34 

2281 

1757 

2247 

1770 

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1771 

2233 

1787 

32 

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1819 

30 

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1849 

29 

2158 

1878 

130 

2126 

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2008 

1997 

2007 

2006 

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1996 

2018 

1986 

2026 

1978 

2049 

1955 

2079 

1925 

2083 

1921 

1083 

1921 

2084 

1920 

2091 

1913 


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rope, As>a and Africa, Western com¬ 
prising North and South America. 

Foundat’n of Assyr’n Mon. by Nimrod. 

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and tower of Babel. 

So called from the confusion of language 
which God sent among the workmen. 

Reu, son of Peleg, b rn. 

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Serug, son of Reu, born. 

Nahor, son of Serug, born. 

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Abram born. 

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dieth, aged *239 .j 

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Noah, father of Shem, dieth, aged 950.. . j 

Abram, son of Terah, born. 

Sarai, Abram’s wife, born. 

Reu, father of Serug, and 7th from Noah, 
dieth, aged 239. . . . .. 

Serug, father of Nahor, and 8th from 
Noah, dieth, aged 230 . 

Chedorlaomer, King of Elam, subduet 
the Kings of Sodom and Gomorrah . . 

Abram, in the 75th year of his age, goes 
to Canaan 

Terah, father of Abram, dieth, aged 205 . 

A famine in Canaan forces Abram into 
Egypt. The same year Abram and Lot 
return to Canaan and the land not be¬ 
ing sufficient for both their flocks, they 
part assunder 

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Chedorlaomer, but are overpowered by 
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Ishmael born to Hagar (.2008) (Abram 
born. . . 

Arphaxad, father of Salah, and 8d from 
Noah, dieth, aged 438 . 

God maketh a covenant with Abram, 
and changes his name to Abraham ; the 
name of Sarai his wife,changed to Sarah. 

About this time Sodom, Gomorrah, and 
all the cities in the vale of Siddim, with 
their inhabitants, destroyed with fire 
and brimstone. 

Isaac, the son of Abram, born .... 

Hagar and Ishmael at Sarah’s request, 
are cast forth. 


Salah, father of Eber, and 4th from Noah, 
dieth, aged 433 . 

God tempteth Abram to offer Isaac . . 

Sarah, wife of Abraham, dieth, aged 127 

Isaac marrieth Rebekah, daughter of 
Bethuel. 

Eber, fither of Peleg, dieth, aged 430 , . 

Shem, father of Arphaxad, dieth, aged 600 

Jacob and Esau, sons of Isaac, born . . 

Abraham, father of Isaac, dieth, aged 175 

Ishmael, son of Hagar dieth, aged 137 . 

Jacob, by his mother’s instruction, ob- 
taineth the blessing which was designed 
for Esau. 

Jacob marrieth Rachel and Leah. 

Reuben, son of Leah, by Jacob, born . . 

Simeon, son of Leah, by Jacob, born . . 

Levi, son of Jacob, born of Rachel . . . 


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Joseph sold by his brethern to merchant¬ 
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Isaac, father, of Jacob and Esau, dieth, 
and is buried by them, aged 180 . . . 

Joseph gets of the Egyptians all the lands, 
money and cattle for bread, and calls 
into Egypt his father, Jacob, who is 
now called Israel, and those of his off-j 
spring, which number 70, who are the 
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A. M. 

2380 

2385 

2427 

2433 

2473 

2474 

2513 

2 5 r 3 


2514 

2533 


B. C. 

1624 Kohath, son of Levi, born. 

1619 Levi, father of Kohath dieth in Egypt, 
aged 137 years. 

1577 Here begins the bondage of the children of 
Israel. 

1574 Aaron, son of Amram, and brother of Moses 
born. 

1571 Moses, son of Amram and brother of Aaron 
is found by Pharaoh's daughter by the river 
and adopted by her. 

1531 Moses slayeth an Egyptian, fleeth to Midian, 
Marryeth Zipporah, daughter of Jethro, 
where he liveth 40 years. 

1530 Caleb, son of Jephunneh born. 

Moses and Aaron with their message from 
God, appeared unto Pharaoh and are sent 
away with many bad words. 

1491 Kohath, father of Amram dieth, aged 133 
years. 

1491 The children of Israel under Moses and 
Aaron, at the expiration of a term of 430 
years, depart out of Egypt through the Red 
sea into the desert of Ethan, there being 
600,000 men, and they taketh with them 
the bones of Joseph, all of whom are freed 
from the bondage of the Egyptians and 
Pharaoh and his host destroyed. 

1490 God renews his covenant with his people. 

Nadab and Abihu for offering strange fire 
are struck dead with fire from heaven. 

The Israelites continue many years in same 
place, for in the space of 37 years only 17 
encampings are mentioned. 

1471 Korah, Dathan, and 250 of their associates, 
for raising a mutiny against Moses and 
Aaron, were swallowed alive into the earth, 
for which others murmured against Moses 
and Aaron, of whom were destroyed by 
God, 14,000 men—some of whom were chil¬ 
dren of Reuben the son of Israel. 

t 451 Aaron, son of Amram dieth on mount Hor, 
aged 123. 

Moses in the 12th month of the same year, 
dieth on mount Nabor, aged 120 years; his 
body God translates into the land of Moab, 
the place of which is not kown to this day. 


A. M. 

2 559 

2561 


2 599 

2661 

2679 

2699 

2719 

2762 

2794 

2798 

2817 

2849 

2867 

2887 

2919 

2^91 

2949 

297 1 


VALUABLE INFORMATION. I 7 

B. C. 

1445 Joshua after having divided all the land west 
of the Jordan among the 9 tribes. 

1443 He reneweth the covenant between God 
and the Israelites and dieth aged no years. 

1413 After the death of Joshua men forgot God 
and worshipped idols. 

God being provoked gives them into the 
hands of king Cushan for 8 years. 

1405 Othniel, son of Renaz, defeats Cushan and 
delivers the Israelites out of bondage, and 
the land resteth for 40 years. 

1343 Othniel dying, the Israelites again sin against 
God. 

1325 By Ehud, son of Gera, are slain 10,000 of 
the men of Moab. 

1305 After the death of Ehud God gives the Is¬ 
raelites into the hands of Jabin, king of 
Canaan, which continueth 20 years. 

1285 Deborah, the wife of Lapidoth, was made 
captain over the host of Israel. 

1232 Abimelech reigns over Israel 3 years, de¬ 
stroys their gods with fire. 

1210 Tola, son of Puah, reigns over Israel 23 years. 

1206 Jair succeeds Tola and judgeth Israel 22 
years. 

1187 Jephtha the Gileadite made captain of the 
host and puts to the sword 42,000 Ephraim- 
ites. 

1135 Samson the Nazarite, as an angel had fore¬ 
told, is born at Zora. 

1137 Samson lays a wager with the Philistines, 
which he lost, and pays with the dead bod¬ 
ies of 30 men which he slew. 

1117 Samson betrayed by his concubine. The 
Philistines bind him with chains and put 
out his eyes. 

1085 David, son of Jesse, born at Bethlehem, 
Judah. 

1063 God rejects Saul and sends Samuel to Beth¬ 
lehem to annoint David king. 

1055 The Israelites defeated ; Sauls 3 sons slain, 
he himself falls on his own sword. 

1033 Bathsheba now becomes David’s wife and 
beareth him a son who God gives the name 
of Solomon. 

David giveth instruction to Solomon and 
dieth. 


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A COMPENDIUM OF 

A. M. 

B. C. 


2989 

1015 

Solomon is king of Israel; marryeth the 
daughter of Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and 
recieves the gift of wisdom from God and 
layeth the foundation of the Temple. 

3029 

975 

Solomon, son of David, dieth, having reign¬ 
ed 40 years, aged 58 years. 

3074 

930 

Elah made king over Israelites who are now 
divided into ten factions. 

3^8 

826 

Jehoash, king of Israel* takes Amazeah 
prisoner and breaks the walls of Jerusalem. 

328! 

713 

About this time Hezekiah falls sick and is 
told by Isaiah that he shall die, but pouring 
out his tears and prayers to God, his life is 
prolonged 15 years. 

3 2 94 

710 

The Lord slays 185,000 men in the Assyr¬ 
ian army. 

3404 

600 

Nebuchadnezzar sends an army into Ju- 
deah, destroys the country and captures over 
3000 prisoners. 

3484 

520 

Haggai prophesieth that the temple will 
be honored with the presence of the Mes¬ 
siah, and from thence peace to all nations. 

3494 

5*° 

All the Jews fast and pray. 

3537 

467 

Ezra commissioned to settle the Jewish 
commonwealth and reform the church at 
Jerusalem. 

36 68 

3 3 5 

Alexander the Great goes from Europe to 
Asia; lays waste the Persian empire. 

3727 

277 

Ptolemus Philadelphus with the assistance 
of 72 Jews translates the holy Scriptures out 
of the original Hebrew into the Greek 
tongue. 

3 8 44 

174 

Antiochus taketh Jerusalem; destroyeth 
40,000 inhabitants and selletn as many more. 

3866 

138 

Antiochus engaged in a war with the Par- 
thians and is murdered by his own allies. 


88 

Anna the prophetess serveth God with fast¬ 
ing and prayer day and night. 

394 i 

63 

Judea becomes a Roman province. 

3994 

55 

Caesar invades Great Britain. 

3974 

3 ° 

Egypt a Roman province. 

3986 

18 

Herod begins to rebuild the temple at Je¬ 
rusalem. 


6 

The angel Gabriel appeareth to Zachary, 
telling him that a son shall be born unto 
him whom he shall call John. 


A M. 


B. C. 

5 


VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


19 


A 


Six months after, the same angel declared 
unto the Virgin Mary that she shall conceive 
by overshadowing of the Holy Ghost, and 
bring forth a son and call his name Jesus. 
John the Baptist born six months before 
Christ. 


PATRIARCHS CONTEMPORARY WITH EACH OTHER. 


ADAM. NOAH. SHEM. 


Contemporary 

with 

Contemporary with 

Contemporary with 

Lamech . . . 

. 56 

Lamech . . . 

. 595 

Lamech .... 93 

Methuselah . . 

. 243 

Methuselah . . 

. 600 

Methuselah . . 98 

Jared .... 


Jared .... 


Noah. '. . . . 448 

Mahalaleel. . 

. 535 

Mahalaleel . . 

. 234 

Naher * * . . . 148 

Cainan .... 

. 605 

Cainan .... 

. 179 

Abram after fl’d 150 

Enos. 


Enos. 


and Isaac. ... 50 


ISAAC. 


Contemporary with 
Salah.18 



Abram.75 

Jacob.120 

Simeon.121 


Jacob, who is now Israel, taketh with him 
into Egypt eleven sons, Joseph making the 
twelfth, and his whole family were seventy 
in number, and when they departed from 
Egypt there were of the same family 600,- 
000 besides children who were the children 
of Israel under Moses. 

4000 Christ our Savior born of the Virgin Mary 

at Bethlehem and laid in a manger; on the 
eighth day after, he is circumcised and 
named Jesus. 

The wise men of the East bring presents 
to the new King of the Jews. 

Joseph, with the child Jesus and his mother 
Mary, go to Egypt. 

Herod commands the infants in and about 
Bethlehem to be slain. 

Augustus remarked that he would sooner be 
one of Herod’s swine than one of his sons. 
Herod dieth and his son Archelaus made 
Tetrarch of Judea. 

Christ, by God’s appointment, brought 
back from Egypt into Nazareth. 


AFTER CHRIST; The First Year of the Christian Era. 

A D. 

8 Jesus, our Lord, goes up with his parents to Jerusa¬ 
lem and there disputes with the doctors in the temple. 
14 Josephus made high priest of the Jews. 

26 Pontius Pilate sent to be procurator of Judea. 

27 John the Baptist begins to preach and baptize in 
the desert of Judea. 
















20 


A COMPENDIUM OF 


Jesus, about the 30th year of his age, is baptized by 
John. The Son of God ascending out of the water 
praying, the heavens are opened and the Spirit of 
God in the shape of a dove descends upon him, and 
the voice from heaven is heard saying: “This is 
my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” 
John sees it and bears record that this is the Son of 
God. 

Christ led by the Spirit into the wilderness and 
fasteth forty days and forty nights. 

30 His first miracle, turning water into wine. 

Christ chooseth twelve apostles, namely; Peter, 
Andrew, James, John, Phillip, Bartholomew, Mat¬ 
thew, Thomas, James the less, Simon, Judas, and 
Judas Iscariot, and sends them out by twos to 
preach and heal the sick. 

32 John the Baptist beheaded in prison by Herod’s 
command. 

33 On the second of April, Jesus institutes the sacra¬ 
ment of his body and blood in bread and wine, and 
the same night is betrayed by Judas, and the next 
day by Pilate, is condemned and crucified. 

33 The sun during the crucifixion is darkened, and the 
veil of the temple rent to the midst. 

Joseph places the body in a new tomb. 

On the third day, (April 5th,) Christ riseth from 
the dead; bringeth his apostles to mount Olivet; 
commandeth them to baptize all nations and to ex¬ 
pect the Holy Ghost in Jerusalem, and is taken up 
and a cloud receives him. 

On the day of pentecost (May 24th), the Holy 
Ghost descendeth upon them and they speak all 
languages. 

Peter preacheth Christ and the resurrection, and 
3000 are baptized. 

Forty days from crucifixion to the ascension ; from 
ascension to pentecost, ten days. 

34 The Apostles ordain seven deacons. 

35 Saul miraculously converted. 

41 The disciples are first called Christians. 

45 From this time Saul is called by his new name, Paul. 
49 London founded by the Romans. 

58 Paul writes his Epistles to the Gallatians. 

60 Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. 

62 Paul prisoner at Rome and preaches there two years. 

63 Here ends the acts of the Apostles. 


VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


21 


A D. 

65 Paul set at liberty, and from Rome writes Epistles 
and departs out of Italy into Asia. 

70 Jerusalem beseiged; 1,100,000 of the Jews perish 
and 97,000 prisoners. 

96 St. John banished to the isle of Patmos ; after the 
death of Domitian, returns to Ephesus and writes 
his Gospel. 

97 The reign of Nerva gave a brief interval of peace to 
the Jews. 

117 Hadrian issued his proclammation of a total sup¬ 
pression of Judaism. 

130 War between the Jews and the Romans, which last¬ 
ed about five years. 

FATES OF THE APOSTLES. 

Matthew was slain in the City of Ethiopia. 

Mark was dragged through the streets of Alexandria 
till he expired. 

Luke was hanged to an olive tree in Greece. 

John was put in a boiling cauldron at Rome, but 
escaped death. He died a natural death at Ephe¬ 
sus, Asia. 

James, the Great, was beheaded at Jerusalem. 

James, the less, was thrown from a pinnacle and 
beaten to death. 

Phillip was beheaded. 

Bartholmew was skinned alive. 

Andrew was crucified, and pounded while dying. 
Thomas was run through with a lance. 

Simon was crucified. 

Mathias was stoned. 

Barnabas was stoned to death. 

Paul was beheaded by the tyrant Nero, at Rome. 
194 The laws of Servus were favorable to the Jews. 

229 Hilliel 11, was the first to compute the years from 
the creation. The cycle of 19 years also invented 
by him in order to cause the course of the sun and 
moon to agree. Before his death he became a 
Christian. 

364 The Jews were favored under Valentinian and Val- 
ens. 

429 Theodosius, grandson of Hillel, the last patriarchial 
officer. 

476 End of the Western Roman Empire. 

486 Clovis founds French monarchy. 

527 The edict of Justinian, prohibiting the celebration 


22 


A COMPENDIUM OF 


A. D. 

of the passover and the education of the children, 
resulted in another war. 

602 Under Pochas was raised an insurrection against the 
Christians, many of whom were burned to death in 
their houses. 

606 Power of the Popes began. 

622 Mahometanism established. 

637 Omar turned his arms against Jerusalsm. 

713 Sacracens conquer Spain. 

828 English monarchy begins- 

842 Germany separated from France. 

896 Alfred the Great flourishes. 

987 Hugh Capet, King of France. 

995 Northmen discover America. 

1066 William I. conquers England. 

1099 Jerusalem taken by crusaders. 

1180 Phillip, King of France, under pretence of piety of 
zeal, banished the Jews and confiscated their wealth 
and effects. 

1291 Kei Khaton, King of Persia, issued a proclamation 
prohibiting the use of gold and silver as a medium 
of value in trade or as a material of manufacture. 
Paper currency introduced. Banks were established 
which were called Tshan Khanah, or stamp houses. 

1300 Candles in England discovered. 

1330 Artillery in Germany discovered. 

1340 Gun powder invented. 

1400 Tamberlane captures and plunders Palmyra ; five 
years after dies. 

1440 Printing invented. 

1492 America discovered by Columbus. 

1498 North American coast explored by John Cabot. 

1506 Columbus dies in his fifty-ninth year, May 20. 

1513 Florida discovered by DeLeon ; Pacific by Balboa. 

1517 Luther begins the reformation. 

1540 Pistols discovered in England. 

1553 Nova Zembla, in the Artie regions, discovered by 
Willoughby. 

1576 First newspaper in England. 

1596 Spitzbergen discovered by the Dutch. 

1602 Virginia was settled at Jamestown. 

2610 Galileo invented the first telescope, by the help of 
which he made the first discovery of the satellites 
of Jupiter. 

1610 The starving time prevailed in Virginia. 

1619 Slavery was introduced in Virginia by the Dutch. 


VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


23 


A. D. 

1620 First white child born in New England. 

1630 Boston settled and the first general court of Massa¬ 
chusetts colony held on the Oct. 19. 

1631 Delaware settled by the Swedes. 

1639 First printing press at Cambridge, Mass., by Stephen 
Day. 

1646 First act passed by the Massachusetts court for the 
spread of the gospel among the Indians. 

1652 First mint established in New England. 

1665 New York city incorporated. 

1682 Pennsylvania (at Philadelphia) was settled by Wm. 
Penn. 

1689 King William’s war began in America. 

1690 First paper money issued by Massachusetts. 

1693 First printing press established in New York by 
Wm. Bradford. 

1700 Episcopal Church established in Pennsylvania. 

1703 Culture of silk introduced into Carolina. 

1712 Free schools founded in Charlestown, Mass. 

1718 Wm.Penn died in England. 

1719 First Presbyterian Church founded in New York. 

1722 Paper money first issued in Pennsylvania. 

i732^George Washington born Feb. 22. 

1 733 Georgia settled—Free Mason’s lodge first held in 
Boston. 

1744 King George’s war began in America. 

1754 At the commencement of the French war, which 
lasted nine years, the number of inhabitants in the 
E. A. colonies were 1,100,000. Same year Col. 
George Washington, with his whole command are 
taken prisoners by Count de Villiers. 

1756 War declared with France by Great Britain. 

1763 The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian 
war. 

1763 Parliament passed the stamp act—Colonial Congress 
met in N. Y. 

1770 Tea plant introduced in Georgia. 

1774 First post office in America—First Colonial Congress 
at Philadelphia. 

1775 The war of the Revolution began with the battle of 
Lexington—Washington elected commander in 
chief. 

1776 Boston evacuated by the British—The Declaration 
of Independence—Washington was defeated at 
White Plains—He took 1000 prisoners at Trenton 
and gained a victory at Princeton. 


24 


A COMPENDIUM OF 


A D. 

1777 Photographing discovered. 

1778 France acknowledges the independence of the U. 
S.—British under Clinton evacuate Philadelphia. 

1780 Battle of Germantown—Andre was executed as a 
spy at Tappan. 

1782 Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army, 7,000 men, 
to the Americans at York Town, Va., which virtu¬ 
ally ended the war. 

1783 Washington resigned his commission to Congress— 
The independence of the U. S. acknowledged by 
Sweden, Denmark, Spain and Russia. 

1787 Convention of Pennsylvania adopted Constitution 
of U. S. Sept. 17. 

1789 Geo. Washington elected President of the U. S.— 
His inauguration April 30. 

1791 BankofU.S. established—First folio Bible printed. 

1792 Kentucky admitted into the Union. 

1 793 Washington re-elected President—Death of John 
Hancock. 

1796 Tennesse admitted into the Union—Washington’s 
last speech to Congress. 

1797 John Adams President. 

1798 Washington appointed commander in chief. * 

1799 Washington died. 

1800 First printing by machinery—Seat of Government 
removed to Washington. 

1801 Thomas Jefferson President. 

1803 Ohio admitted into the Union —Louisiana purchased 
by the U. S. 

1806 Webster’s compendium dictionary published. 

1809 James Madison President. 

1812 Proclamation of war—Embargo laid for 90 days— 
War declared June 18—Napoleon invaded Russia 
400,000 men. 

1815 Battle of Waterloo—War declared with Algiers. 

1817 James Monroe President—Mississippi admitted into 
the Union. 

1818 Illinois admitted into the Union. 

1819 Alabama admitted into the Union. 

1820 Missouri compromise bill passed, Missouri admit¬ 
ted Aug. 20; Constitution formed by convention at 
St. Louis. 

1821 Maine admitted—Quinine discovered—Steel pens 
invented. 

1825 John Q. Adams President—Departure of Gen. La¬ 
fayette. 


VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


2 5 


A. D. 

1828 Webster’s dictionary first published, 2 quarto vol¬ 
umes. 

1829 Andrew Jackson President—Slavery abolished in 
Mexico—Hail in Alabama 12 inches deep, May 2. 

1831 Monroe died—Free Trade Convention at Philadel¬ 
phia—Remarkable eclipse of the sun Jan. 12 

1832 Cholera makes its first appearance in Quebec, June 
8—Capture of Black Hawk—S. C. declared the 
doctrine of nullification. 

1833 Andrew Jackson re-elected—Santa Anna President 
of Mexico. 

1836 Battle of San Jacinto, Texas—Arkansas becomes a 
a State. 

1837 Michigan admitted—Martin Van Buren President. 

1841 W. H. Harrison President, and died April 4 —Tyler 

inaugurated April 6. 

1845 Texas annexed—Florida admitted—Polk President. 

1846 Mexicans capture Thornton’s party ; are defeated at 
Palo Alto—Taylor took Matamoras and defeated the 
Mexicans at Monterey.—A new constitution for this 
State formed by a convention at Jefferson. 

1847 Taylor defeated the Mexicans at Buena Vista; Don¬ 
iphan defeated the Mexicans at Bracito and Sacra¬ 
mento ; Scott defeated the Mexicans at Cero Gorda; 
entered the City of Mexico Sept. 14. 

1848 Treaty between U. S. and Mexico—Wisconsin ad¬ 
mitted into Union. 

1849 Z. Taylor President—Emmigration to California. 

1850 Taylor died—Milliard Fillmore inaugurated—Madi¬ 
son born—California admitted into the Union— 
Franklin Pierce inaugurated—White population of 
Missouri this year, 592,000 ; white population of 
Platte county this year, 13,996; of Clay, 7.585; of 
Ray, 8,833; Caldwell, 2,176; Clinton, 3,345; Bu¬ 
chanan, 12,082; Jackson, 10,990. 

1853 Franklin Pierce inaugurated President. 

1854 Congress passed the Kansas and Nebraska bill—As- 
tor Librar) opened. 

1857 James Buchannan inaugurated—Great commercial 
panic. 

1858 Minnesota admitted. 

1859 Oregon admitted. 

1860 South Carolina passed a secession ordinance—Kan¬ 
sas admitted into the Union, while 10 of the South¬ 
ern States passed secession ordinances, and the 
Southern Confederacy was formed with President 


26 


A COMPENDIUM OF 


A. D. 

Davis at its head, Feb. 18—Lincoln inaugurated 
President March 4, and called for 75,000 troops 
April 15—England, France, Spain and Portugal ac- * 
knowledge the Confederate States as beligerents— 
U. S. Congress met July 4—Battle at Carthage, July 
5—Union army routed at Bull Run—Confederates 
victorious at Wilson’s Creek, August 10—Lexing- 
ton, Mo., surrendered to Confederates—Union 
forces captured Port Royal. 

1861 Mason and Slidell captured Nov. 8. 

1862 Confederates defeated at Mill Spring, Jan. 19— 
Seven days contest before Richmond—Battle Cedar 
Mountain. 

1863 Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation Jan. 

1—West Virginia admitted into the Union—Great 
riot in New York July 13-16—Morgan’s raid into 
Indiana and Ohio, July. 

1864 Grant appointed Lieut. General—Confederates cap¬ 
ture Fort Pillow—Sherman captures Atlanta Sept. 2 
—Nevada admitted Oct. 31. 

1865 Union troops and fleet capture Fort Fisher Jan. 15 
—The Freedman’s Bureau bill became a law—Lee 
surrendered April 9—President Lincoln assassinated 
April 14—Johnson inaugurated April 15—Gen. J. 

E. Johnston surrendered to Sherman—Jefferson 
Davis captured May 10—Slavery declared constitu¬ 
tionally abolished. 

1868 President Johnson impeached ; his trial commenced 
commenced in the Senate; acquitted May 26. 

1869 U. S. Grant President. 

1870 15th amendment adopted. 

1871 The Alabama Treaty concluded—Fire in Chicago 
Oct. 7, 8 and 9. 

1873 Grant inaugurated for the second term—Great 
financial panic throughout the U. S.— Louis Napol¬ 
eon died—Chase died—Gold yield in California 
’73, $1,440,240 —At Pubelo, Col., during the year 
the weather record shows total number cloudy days 
11, fair days 203, clear days 151—Stokes found 
guilty of murder in the second degree—Total debt 
of the U. S #2,162,252,338—The annual report of 
the Chief of Police shows that liquor is sold in 1,975 
places in Cincinnati—Soonghur, a town in India, 
destroyed by earthquake; 1500 persons are killed— 
Two murderers lynched at Bozeman, M. T.—Geo. 
Clark, the well-known cotton thread manufacturer, 


A COMPENDIUM OK 


2 7 


A. D. 

died at Newark, N. j.—A large number of Mormons 
leave Salt Lake for the new settlement in Arizona— 
Thomas Hayes, a counterfeiter, arrested at Cairo— 
March 3, the forgeries on the Bank of England 
amount to nearly #1,000,000—March 12, W. C. 
Ogle, a notorious counterfeiter arrested in Philadel¬ 
phia—March 23, Gen. Spinner enters upon his 13th 
year of service as U. S. Treasurer—April 22, 12 
persons killed in the Frankfort riot, which was 
caused by an advance in the price of beer—May 1, 
Missouri penitentiary leased for ten years—Gang of 
counterfeiters arrested in Little Rock—Sept, i, 
Counterfeit $500 treasury notes discovered—Dec. 23, 
Collier White Lead and Oil Co.’s works destroyed 
by fire; loss, #80,000. 

1874 Jan. 7, T. S. Bacon, cashier Holyoke Bank, Mass., 
defaulter to the amount of #4,570—Feb. 11, A. 
Dudley, treasurer of Wyoming county, defaulter to 
the amount of #5,000—March 26, C. P. Wright ab¬ 
sconds with a large sum of money belonging to a 
bank—April 6, A misappropriation of $70,000 from 
a bank at Brighton, Mass.—May 14, Chas. Claiborne, 
clerk U. S. District Court at New Orleans, absconds 
with #30,000—June 13, over 3,000,000 people get¬ 
ting the benefit of the government relief in India 
on account of famine—Sept. 2, Goldsmith Maid 
trotted a mile at Mystic Park in 2:14 ; fastest time 
on record—The Prince of Wales accepts the Grand- 
mastership of the E. Free Masons—Oct. 13, Chas. 
H. Phelps, formerly clerk in the treasurer’s office 
at Albany, convicted of forgery and sentenced to 
13 years imprisonment—Famine and deaths from 
starvation reported in Kansas and Nebraska. 

1875 Election of delegates to the State Constitutional 
Convention—Passage of the Civil Rights Bill. 

A Few Facts From the Bible. 

Adam the first man created. Seth, the third son of 
Adam. Enos, son of Seth. Cainan, son of Enos, Maha- 
ialeel, son of Cainan. Jared, son of Mahalaleel. Enoch, 
son of Jared. Methuselah, son of Enoch. Lamech, son 
of Methuselah. Noah, son of Lamech. Shem, son of 
Noah. Arphaxad, son of Shem. Salah, son of Arphax- 
ad. Eber, son of Salah. Peleg, son of Eber. Reu, son 
of Peleg. Serug, son of Reu Nahor, son of Serug. 


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Terah, son of Nahor. Abram, son of Terah. Isaac, son 
of Abram. Jacob, son of Isaac. Levi, son of Jacob. 
Kohath, son of Levi. Amrani, son of Kohath. Mose«, 
son of Amram. Moses led the children of Israel (who 
was Jacob, son of Isaac) from Egypt, through the Red 
Sea into the wilderness, 1491 years B. C. 

The Number Seven. 

On the 7th day God ended his work ; on the 7th 
month Noah’s Ark touched the ground ; in 7 days a dove 
was sent out; Abraham pleaded 7 times for Sodom ; Ja¬ 
cob served 7 years for Rachel, and yet 7 more; Jacob 
mourned 7 days for Joseph ; Jacob was pursued at 7 day’s 
journey by Laban; a plenty of 7 years and a famine of 7 
years—a dream—by 7 fat and 7 lean beasts; and 7 years 
full and 7 years of blasted corn in Egypt. 

On the 7th day of the 7th month the Children of 
Israel fasted 7 days and remained 7 days in tents. 

Every 7th year the land rested. Every 7th year all 
the bondsmen were set free. Every 7 days the law was 
read to the people. In the destruction of Jerico, 7 priests 
bore 7 trumpets 7 days; on the 7th day they surrounded 
the walls 7 times ; at the end of the 7th round the walls 
fell. Solomon was 7 years building the temple, and 
feasted 7 days at its dedication. In the tabernacle were 
7 lamps ; the golden candlestick had 7 branches. Naa- 
man washed 7 times in the Jordan. Job’s friends sat with 
him 7 days and 7 nights, and offered 7 bullocks and 7 
rams as an atonement. Our Savior spoke 7 times from the 
cross ; on which he hung 7 hours, and after his resurrec¬ 
tion appeared 7 times. In the Lord’s Prayer are 7 peti¬ 
tions. In Revelations we read of 7 churches, 7 candle¬ 
sticks, 7 stars, 7 trumpets, 7 plagues, 7 thunders, 7 vials, 
7 angels, and a seven-headed monster. Look out for the 
chills on the 7th day. 

Facts About the Bible. 

The Bible contains 3,586,489 letters, 773,692 words, 
31,173 verses, 1,189 chapters, and 66 books. The word 
“and ” occurs 46,277 times. The word “ Lord ” occurs 
1,855 times. The word “reverend” occurs but once, 
which is in the 8th verse of the 118th Psalm. The 21st 
verse in the 7th chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of 
the alphabet, inclusive of the letter J. The 19th chapter 
of 11 Kings, and 32d chapter of Isaiah are alike! The 
longest verse is the 9th verse of the chapter of Esther. 



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The shortest, is the 35th verse of the nth chapter of 
John. The 8th, 15th, 21st and 31st verses of the 107th 
Psalm are alike. Each verse of the 136th Psalm end 
alike, there being no names or words of more than six 
syllables. 

What book of the Bible ends as the next begins ? 

Bible Measures. 

A day’s journey is about 53 1-5 miles. Sabbath day’s 
journey was about an English mile. A cubit is 22 inches. 
A Shekel of gold, $8.09. A talent of silver was $538.32. 
A talent of gold was $3,800. A piece of silver, or penny, 
was 13 cents. A farthing was 3 cents. A garah, i cent. 

Once in Seven Years. 

It is said by scientists that at the end of every seventh 
year of a man or woman’s life, not a partical of physical 
humanity remains in their system which was in it 7 years 
before. 

It is said by experts in counting rooms, that the mono¬ 
gram rules for detecting are infallible. 

A Few Items of History, Sacred and Profane. 

The history of mankind, beginning with the Creation, 
embraces a period of nearly 6,000 years. Taking the re¬ 
ceived Bible Chronology, we fix the Creation at 4004 B. 
C. Since that time nearly 2,000 years have elapsed. 

For the history of events between the Creation and the 
Deluge, a period of 1,656 years, we are indebted entirely 
to the Bible. After the Flood, Noah and his family es¬ 
tablished themselves, in the Valley of the Euphrates, 
where the human family rapidly increased. Some re¬ 
mained stationary, founding kingdoms and building cities, 
while others emigrated to other countries. Asia was first 
peopled, and here society and civilization had its begin- 
ing. Genesis, 10th and nth chapters: “ The children of 
Shem were Elam, *\shur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram. And 
it came to pass that when Shem and his children, and his 
children’schildren, journeyed from the East, that they found 
a plain in the Land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And 
they made brick and began to build a city. And the Lord 
came down to see the city and the tower, which the chil¬ 
dren of men did build. And the Lord said, behold, the 
people is one, and they have all one language. So the 
Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of 
all the earth ; and they left off to build the city. These 
are the generations of Shem. ” 


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At a very early date, however, mankind spread them¬ 
selves into Africa and Egypt. 

Many centuries subsequent to this, bands of emigrants 
had reached Europe, which in the process of time became 
gradually the seat and centre of civilization. America at 
this time was wholly unknown to the ancient world. His¬ 
tory is divided into Ancient and Modern, and we can 
only give events as they transpire in their respective 
places. 

Physical geography regards the earth as constituted 
by its Creator, and it remains the same from one age to 
another. If there be a change, it is unimportant in a 
general view. The seas, mountains, rivers and coasts are 
the same at the present day as they were in the days of 
Isaac, Jacob and Moses, and in many cases bear the same 
names now as in ancient times, notwithstanding the fluc¬ 
tuation of political boundaries, and the revolutions of hu¬ 
man society. 

We have already alluded to the division of the earthin the 
day of Peleg, A. M. 1757, and that the line of division was 
supposed, by some, to be the Atlantic Ocean, separating 
the Eastern and Western Continents. The Eastern com¬ 
prising Europe, Asia and Africa. Europe being divided 
into many smaller countries. We find from ancient his¬ 
tory that Germany occupies a prominent place within its 
boundaries, and retains the same name to this day. Ger¬ 
many is in the central part of Europe, has a population of 
38,204,000, and an area of 247,438 square miles. Popu¬ 
lation of Frankfort, capital of Germany, 63,000. In the 
mountainous part of Germany, in the year of the world 
5744, was born Ham, the son of Ham, whose Christian 
name was Jacob, which means (supplanter, heeler), and 
he retained the name of Jacob to the time of his death. 
He was born during the reign of Charles VII., in the 30th 
year of his age He married Caroline, daughter of Kime, 
whose Christian name was also Jacob. In the 40th year of 
his age, having heard much of the Old Keystone State, he 
departed from Germany into that country. Two years 
after was born John. Eight years later, in the year 1790, 
he removed to Kentucky—after the inauguration of Geo. 
Washington—and the children of Ham were Jacob, Sam¬ 
uel, John, William. Peter, Michael and Elizabeth. 

John married Chloe, the daughter of W. R. Jones, and 
their children were Wm., Willis, Burton, John Martin, 
Caleb, Solomon, Michael and Brice, and two daughters, 
Ellen and Joan. Burtcn married Ann, the daughter of 
H. T. Chevis, and sister to Thos. M. Chevis. In 1843 


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they removed from Kentucky to Platte County, Missouri, 
where they have resided ever since, and have been called 
Barryites. In the year of the world 5841 was born Ham, 
the son Of B. R. Ham. The builder of churches, and the 
discoverer of an important rule for detecting counterfeit 
notes, and desires, unhesitatingly and most respectfully, to 
submit the same to your careful consideration. What 
thou canst do thyself commit not to another. 

A Brief Sketch of Seth, Third Son of Adam. 

After the death of Adam, Seth, with his family, lived 
in purity and great sanctity of manners, and they went 
every day to the top of the mountain to worship God, 
and visit the body of Adam. On the mountain they were 
enabled to learn the first rudiments of astronomy. Lest 
their knowledge of this science should be lost to their 
posterity, they built two pillars, one of brick the other of 
stone, on which they engraved their discoveries. This 
was done in consequence of a prediction made by Adam. 
Josephus affirms that one of these pillars was standing in 
his time, in upper Egypt. 

Some of the Great Wonders of the World. 

1st. The great Pyramid of Egypt, built 900 years B. 
C. 360,000 men were employed 20 years in its construc¬ 
tion. 

2d. The City of Babylon, the walls of which were 
60 miles in circumference. The walls around the city are 
87 feet thick and 350 feet high. 

3d. The gold and ivory throne of Jupiter Olympus. 
The god was formed of gold and ivory, and was 58 feet 
high. 

4th. The temple of Diana, of the Ephesians, at 
Ephesus. The temple was built of gold, cedar and cy¬ 
press, and during a period of 220 years the whole of Asia 
Minor assisted in enriching the structure. 

5th The tomb of Mausolus, at Helicarnassus, 350 B. 
C. It was 113 by 93 feet, with 36 Doric columns, 60 feet 
high. 

6th. The Pharos of Alexandria, an ancient light¬ 
house, 450 feet high, with a lantern on top continually 
burning. 

7th. The Colossus of Rhodes, 105 feet high, placed 
across the harbor at Rhodes, with a stride of fifty feet 
from rock to rock. Vessels passed under it at full sail. 
A spiral stair-case led to its summit. 


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The greatest cataract in the world is the Falls of Ni- 
agra, the water in two columns plunging to the depth of 
170 feet. 

The greatest cave in the world, is the Mammoth cave 
in Kentucky. 

The greatest river, is the Mississippi, 4,100 miles long. 
Mississippi, the largest valley, contains 500,000 square 
miles. Lake Superior, the largest lake, 480 miles long. 
i,oco feet deep. Chicago, the greatest grain port. The 
Pacific, the longest railroad in the world, over 3,000 miles 
long. The Atlantic Cable, laid Aug 5th, 1858. Ceased 
to work Sept. 1st; only 400 messages sent. 

What is most likely to become a woman ? A big girl. 

A good suggestion is like a crying baby at church— 
ought to be carried out. 

“ Well, wife, you can’t say I ever contracted bad 
habits. ” “No, sir, you seem always to have enough that 
they expand. ” 

LOFTY STRUCTURES. 

Bunker Hill Monument, at Boston, 223 feet. 

Trinity Church steeple, at New York 264 feet. 

The dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 320 feet. 

National Washington Monument, 517^ feet. 

Dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome, 465. 

Washington Monument,'at Baltimore, 180 feet. 

Large Bells. —The bell on St. Paul’s Cathedral, Lon¬ 
don, weighs 13,000 pounds. At the House of Parlia¬ 
ment, 31,000 pounds. Vienna, 40,000 pounds. Mos¬ 
cow, 141,000. Pekin, 139,000. The alarm bell on the 
City Hall, New York, 23,000. 

ANCIENT CURIOSITIES. 

Ninevah was fourteen miles long, eight wide, and 40 « 
round, with a wall 100 feet high, and thick enough for 
three chariots to ride abreast. 

The Coloseum at Rome was 1600 feet in circumference 
and would seat comfortably 80,000 people. 

In Queen Victoria’s crown there are 1,363 brilliant 
diamonds, 1,273 rose diamonds, 147 table diamonds, one 
large ruby, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, four small rubies, 
and 227 pearls; a total of 3,093 precious stones. 

In 1863, there was found in Clay County, Mo., near J. 

C. Evan’s a large tooth, weighing about eight pounds, 
which was perfect in form, and supposed to be the tooth 
of a large animal. What must have been the probable 
weight of the animal? If a man’s weight is 150 pounds 



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and his tooth weighs 50 grains, the man’s weight is 21,000 
times that of the tooth. So in the case of the animal and 
its tooth : if the tooth of an animal weigh 8 pounds, the 
animal will weigh 21,000 times that, which would be 
168,000 pounds, the weight of the animal. “ Who saw 
it?” 


OLDEN TIME ITEMS. 

A. D. 

401 The Black Sea was frozen over. 

768 The Straits of the Dardanelles and the Black 
Sea frozen. The snow in some places 50 feet 
deep. 

822 The great rivers of Egypt, the Danube, and 
the Elbe frozen. 

860 The Adriatic frozen, 991 crops failed, and pes¬ 
tilence closes the year 

1067 Travelers were frozen to death on the roads. 
1716 Booths were erected and fairs held on the 
Thames. 

Prophecy of Mother Shipton, of London. 

322 Years ago she said : 

A house of glass shall come to pass in England. 

But when the North shall divide the South 
An Eagle shall build in the Lion's mouth. • 

Carriages without horses shall go, 

And accidents fill the world with woe. 

Around the world thoughts shall fly 
In the twinkling of an eye. 

The Jew that was held in scorn. 

Shall of a Christian be born and born. 

One Hundred Years Ago. 

no years ago Daniel Boone, of North Carolina, the 
first settler in Kentucky. 

100 years ago Canada belonged to France, and the 
population, 1,500,000. 

100 years ago Frederick of Prussia, with his little mon¬ 
archy, was sustaining a single-handed contest with Rus¬ 
sia, Austria and France. 

100 years ago there were but four newspapers in 
America. 

The United States were then the most loyal part of 
the British Empire. 

Education is not All. 

A man may be wise, clever, good, skillful, apt, able, 
cunning, farseeing, facile, prompt, pertinacious, brave, 
solid, noble, reverend, upright, and zealous, and yet not 









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educated in the full sense; and on the other hand he may¬ 
be the opposite, and still his victuals taste well. 

Humble usefulness is preferable to idle splendor. 

MASONRY AND ITS ANTIQUITIES. 

Although it has been customary in tracing the history 
and origin of Masonry, to date its first beginning from 
the building of Solomon’s Temple, 1000 B. C., yet it is 
the belief of many others that it had its origin with cir- 
vilization. That the masonic art is as ancient as civiliza¬ 
tion no one doubts. Asia was first peopled, and there so¬ 
ciety and civilization had its beginning, and men were 
builders before they learned to live peaceably and soci¬ 
ably. Asia produced the first Masons, whose works have 
existed to the present day. 

Masons of the York and French rites date from the 
creation of the world, calling it Anno Lucis—the abbre¬ 
viation A. L. signifying, “ in the Year of Light. ” Thus 
with them the present year is A. L. 5879. Royal Arch 
Masons date from the year in which Zerubabel began to 
build the second temple, which was 530 B. C. Their 
style for 1875 is “ A Inv. ie Anno Invention, ”or the year 
of the Discovery 2405. Royal and Select Masters often 
use the common Masonic date A. L. Knights Templar 
use the date 6f the organization of their order, 1118. 
Their style for 1875 is A. O., Anno Ordenis, or in the 
year of the Order 754. 

Grange organized by Dudley Williams in 1867. , 

Sound moves about thirteen miles in a minute. So 
that if we hear a clap of thunder half a minute after the 
flash, we may calculate that the discharge of electricity 
is six and one-half miles off. 

The time required to select from books the informa¬ 
tion herein contained and arranged for ready consultation, 
75 days. 


ASTRONOMICAL ITEMS. 

Thales is regarded as the founder of astronomy 
among the Greeks, 600 years before Christ. He fixed the 
length of the year at 365 days. He is also said to have pre¬ 
dicted the celebrated eclipse of the sun which caused the 
termination of the war between the Medes and Lydians. 

Pythagora, 540 B. C., taught that the Universe was 
composed of four elements, and that the sun was in the 
centre. He was the first to discover that Venus was the 
morning and evening star. 



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Hipparchus, 200 years B. C., fixed the length of the 
year at 365 days, 5 hours and 53 minutes—within 4 min¬ 
utes, and 3 seconds of the time. 

Gallileo, in 1610, invented the telescope and discov¬ 
ered the Satellites of Jupiter. Herschel discovered Ura¬ 
nus in 1781. The Asteroids were discovered at various 
times from 1801 to 1847. Neptune was by a series of 
mathematical calculations discovered 1846. 

The greatest number of eclipses that can take place in 
a year is 7, 5 of the sun and 2 of the moon. 

Diameter of the sun, 880,000 miles ; circumference, 
2,764,000 miles ; its surface contains2, 532,800,000,000 
square miles. The planet Mercury is 37 million miles 
from the sun, and is the nearest that has yet been discov¬ 
ered Diameter of Mercury, 3,200 miles. Diameter of 
Venus, 7,800 miles; distance from the sun, 68 million 
miles. The average distance of the Earth from the sun 
is 95 million miles. Mars, 145 million miles from the sun, 
when nearest, 50 million miles from the Earth; when far¬ 
thest, 240 million miles. Jupiter is 495 million miles 
from the sun ; its nearest approach to the Earth is 600 
million miles. Saturn’s distance from the sun is 906 mil¬ 
lion miles, 811 million miles from the Earth. Uranus, 
distant from the sun, about 1,800 million miles, about the 
same from the earth. 

We must pass through this world to unlock the mys¬ 
teries of the next, and it is only in the next that we can 
find a key to unlock the mysteries of this. 

The hope is sure which has its foundation in virtue. 


GEOGRAPHICAL ITEMS. 

•f 

995 America discovered by the Danes and Norwe¬ 
gians under the name of Northmen. 

1492 America discovered by Columbus 
The whole land area of the Globe is estimated at 50,- 
200,000 square miles, distributed as follows : 


The Old World, or Eastern Continent, em¬ 
bracing . 


Square Miles. 
Europe, 3,724,000 
Asia, 16,152,000 
Africa, 11,354,000 


Total Eastern Continent. 31,230,000 

The New World, or Western Continent, em- f N. A. 8,000,000 
bracing . \ S. A. 6,800,000 


Total Western Continent . 14,800,000 

Total, Eastern and Western Continents . 46,030,000 


Maritime World, or Oceanica. Antarctic unknown. 4,170,000 


Grand Total 


50,200,000 












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The Ocean, with all seas and bays, covers an area of ... 
If we suppose its mean depth 2 miles, it will contain ... 
Pacific Ocean, 8,000 miles wide by 11,000 long contains 
Atlantic Ocean, average width, 3,600 miles, by 8,600 

miles long, contains about. 

Indian Ocean, average width, 4,500 miles, by 4,500 

miles long, contains.. 

Antarctic Ocean, lying around the South Pole, embraces 
an area of, (this includes the Antarctic Continent) 


147,800,000 

300,000,000 

88,000,000 

30,960,000 

20,250,000 

30,000,000 


There are on the Globe 1,288 million souls, of which 
360 millions are of the Caucasian race, 176 millions are 
of the Malay race, 552 millions are of the Mongol race, 
190 millions are of the Ethiopian race, and 1 million are 
of the American Indian race. There are 3,642 languages, 
1,000 different religions. One-eighth of the whole popu¬ 
lation is military. 

In every 1,000 persons who arrive at the age of 70, 43 
are priests, orators or public speakers; 33 are workmen; 
32 are soldiers ; 30 are agriculturists ; 29 are advocates or 
engineers ; and 24 are doctors. 

A young doctor asked a girl to let him kiss her. She 
replied, “ I want no doctor’s bill stuck in my face. ” 


PHILOSOPHICAL FACTS. 

A question often asked and nearly as often without 
answer, is “What is horse power?” Horse power is 
equivalent to the work done by continuous exertion at the 
rate of 33,000 pounds, raised one foot in one minute, that 
is, the performance of 33,000 units of work per minute. 
For a medium height of steam and speed : eight-inch cyl¬ 
inder, 12 4-5 horse power; ten-inch cylinder, 20 horse 
power; twelve-inch cylinder, 28 4-5 horse power; fifteen- 
inch cylinder, 45 horse power 

An ounce of water converted into steam will raise a 
weight of 2160 pounds one foot. 

There are six mechanical powers, namely, lever, wheel 
and axle, the pully, the inclined plane, the wedge and the 
screw. The wedge is the most powerful. 

Air weighs fifteen pounds to the square inch, and 
presses equally in all directions. 

Two or three shovels of saw dust thrown into a boiler 
will prevent the accumulation of lime therein. 

Rule for Finding the Number of Men Power in an En¬ 
gine —Square the diameter of the cylinder—the product, 
the number required. 

To ascertain the horse power, divide that product by 
five. Example—Cylinder, five inches, multiplied by 5, 
equals 25 men power, divided by 5 equals 5 horse power. 




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When in motion, to push on is easy. 

One watch set right will do to set many by. 

MATHEMATICAL AND SCIENTIFIC. 

Diameter multiplied by 3.14 gives circumference. 

Diameter squared and multipled by 3.14 gives area. 

Circumference multiplied by .32 gives diameter. 

Square root of area T.13 gives diameter. 

A middle-sized man would weigh as much as four 
thousand wrens, and as much as ten thousand locusts. 

The note of a locust can be heard 1-16 of a mile. If 
a man of moderate size could make his note heard 
at a distance proportionate in comparison to his size, his 
voice could be heard at a distance of one thousand miles. 

There are two reasons why some men don’t mind their 
own business : First—That they have no mind, and, sec¬ 
ond they have no business. 

Josh Billings says slander is like a tin kettle tied to a 
dog’s tail—very good fun as long as it isn’t your dog. 


Medical and Surgical Items, With Anatomy. 

The number of bones in the adult human skeleton is 
211, besides the teeth; greater in infancy as there are 
many bones seperable in infancy and united in the adult. 
Twenty in the head, 14 of which belong to the face. The 
first, or milk set of teeth (20), appear at six months and 
are completely shed at 14 years. In the second set (32) 
each root is supplied with a nerve and a branch of an ar¬ 
tery. The liver, the largest organ in the animal econo¬ 
my, weighs four pounds. The optic nerve is the only one 
in the body that has an artery and a vein running through 
its centre. 

The human body contains five hundred muscles. The 
length of the alimentary canal is about 32 feet. The 
nerves are all connected with the spinal marrow, and num* 
ber over ten million. The weight of the heart in the 
male is eleven ounces, in the female nine ounces, pulsa¬ 
tion from 70 to 80 to the minute. The skin has three lay¬ 
ers, and varies from to 3-16 of an inch in thickness and 
covers an area of two thousand square inches, with thirty- 
five thousand pores to an inch, making seven million pores 
in the body. The amount of air which passes through 
the lungs in 24 hours is about 366 cubic feet. The mean 
quantity of carbonic acid exhaled is about 160 grains per 
hour. 



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From the Transylvania Medical Journal, 

A Certain Cure for Toothache .—Take of lint or raw 
cotton, saturated with nitric acid, and with a probe insert 
it into the cavity, care being taken not to touch the other 
teeth, gums or cheeks. The relief is said to be instanta¬ 
neous. Afterwards, the mouth to be washed with tepid 
water. 

A Good Remedy for Affection of the >.Female Breast , 
and in Cancerous Ulcerations , From the Same Authority .— 
In discharging or open cancer, wash the the breast freely 
with salt water, and one or two applications of carrot 
poultice, sprinkled with powdered conium, after which 
use the conium pill and plaster occasionally—a plaster of 
the extract of the breast. 

The fall of the leaf is a whisper to the living. 

Keep on good terms with your wife, your stomach and 
your conscience. 


AGRICULTURAL CLIPPINGS. 

LAND IN FARMS IN 1870, i860 AND 1850. 


United St’s 
Missouri . . 
Kansas . . 
Illinois . . 

Acres ’70 
407 i 735 , 04 i 
21,707,220 
5,656,899 
25,882,861 

Acres ’60. 
407,212,538 
19,984,810 
1,778,400 
20,911,989 

Acres '50. 
29,356,614 
9,732,670 

12,037,412 

I Imp. ’70. 
188,921,099 

1 9, i 3 o ;6 i 5 

1,971,003 

1 19,339,952 

Imp. ’60. 
163,110,720 
6,246,871 
405,468 
13 , 096,373 

Imp. ’50. 
113,032,614 
2,938 425 

5 , 039,545 

Production of Wheat, Rye, Corn, Oats, Barley and Pota¬ 
toes in 1870, in Bushels. 

United St's | 
Missouri . . 1 
Illinois . . 
Kansas . . 

Wheat. 

287,745,626 

I 4 , 3 I 5 > 9 2 ^ 

30,128,405 

1 2,391.198 

Rye. 

16,918,795 

559,532 

24,565,578 

85,207 

Corn. 

760,944,548 

66,034,075 

129,921,395 

1^,005,525 

Oats. 

282,106,157 
16,578,313 
42,780,851 
4 , 097 , 9'5 

Barley. 

129,761,305 

269,240 

2,480,400 

98,405 

Potatoes. 

143,337,473 

4,238,361 

10.944,790 

2,842,988 


Value of Orchard products in Missouri for ’70, #2,617,462 
“ “ “ Kansas 158,046 

“ “ “ Illinois “ 3>5 7 1 • 7S9 

The largest yield of wheit known, in Colorado— 
305 bushels from 4 acres. 

On 25 acres 6,250 bushels of potatoes 

Produce to the amount of #6,000 in one year, on a 
240-acre farm. 

The principal manufactures of Colorado are lumber 
and flour. 

That you may find ready sale for your surplus corn, at 
the highest prices, bear in mind the importance of uni¬ 
formity of color in neighborhoods. Four pecks at a hill 
of corn will not make a bushel. 

When labor is worth #15 per month, wheat worth $1 



























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per bushel, and ground rent $3 per acre, it costs $10 to 
raise an acre of wheat. At the same cost of labor and 
ground, it costs $9 to raise an acre of corn. With the 
same expense of labor and rent, it costs $7 to raise an 
acre of oats, allowing 50 cents for the seed. This price 
puts it in the granary. 

5 yards wide by 968 long one acre. 10 yards wide by 
484 long one acre. 20 yards wide by 242 long one acre. 
40 yards wide by 121 long one acre. 60 feet by 726 feet 
one acre. no feet by 396 one acre. 220 feet by 198 
one acre. 

The only way to keep clear of the chintz bug is to 
raise nothing that he will eat. 

Fictitious Names Explained. 

Ariel—In the demonology of the Cabala, a water 
spirit. In the fables of the middle ages, a spirit of the 
air 

Barley Corn—In England or Scotland a jocular name 
for ale or beer. 

Cambuscan — A “noble king” in the Chancer’s 
“ Squire’s Tale. ” 

Dark Day—May 19, 1780; so called on account of 
the darkness of that day all over the earth. 

Eldorado—The golden land. A name given by the 
Spaniards to an imaginary country. 

Father of Waters — A popular name given to the 
Mississippi River, on account of its great length. 

Gotham—A popular name given to the City of New 
York. 

Hiawatha—A mythical personage of miraculous 
birth, believed by the North American Indians to have 
been sent among them to make peace. 

Iron City—A name popularly given in the United 
States to Pittsburg, Pa. 

Jones, Davy—A familiar name among sailors for 
death. 

King of Terrors—A common personification of death. 

Knickerbrocker—An imaginary author of a fictitious 
history of New York, by W Irving. 

Land of Nod—The state or condition of sleep. 

Missouri Compromise—A name popularly given to an 
act of Congress passed in 1820. 

Number Nip—The famous mountain goblin of Ger¬ 
many. 

Old Hickory—A sobriquet conferred upon General 
Andrew Jackson in 1813. 





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A COMPENDIUM OF 


Partington, Mrs.—An imaginary old lady whose 
laughable sayings are often recorded. 

Quadrangle—A name given to four strong Austrain 
fortresses in Italy. 

Rail Splitter—A cant designation of Abraham Lincoln. 

Stonewall Jackson—A sobriquet given during the Re¬ 
bellion to Thos. J. Jackson. 

Tippecanoe—A sobriquet given to W. H. Harrison, 
the hero of Tippecanoe, and President in 1841. 

Uncle Sam—A cant or vulgar name for the U. S. Gov¬ 
ernment. 

Valentine—One of the heroes in the old romance of 
“Valentine and Orson. ” 

Wild, Jonathan—A notorious English robber, who was 
executed in 1745. 

Xury—A Morescoe boy in De Foe’s romance of 
“ Robinson Crusoe. ” 

Young America—A popular collective name for 
American youth. 

Zadkiel—The name of one of the angels of the seven 
planets. 

No other living thing can go so slow as a boy on an 
errand. 

SANTA CLAUS; OR, ST. NICHOLAS. 

The patron and saint of boys. He is the Santa Claus 
of the Dutch. St. Nicholas is said to have supplied 3 
destitute maidens with marriage portions by secretly 
leaving money at their windows and as his day occurred 
just before Christmas, he was thus made the purveyor of 
the gifts of the season to all children in Flanders and 
Holland, who put out their shoe or stocking in the confi¬ 
dence that Santa Claus would put in a prize for good con¬ 
duct before morning. Another legend described the saint 
as having brought to life three murdered children. This 
rendered him the patron of boys. 


SEEDS. 

The diffusion of remedial plants is promoted by mi¬ 
gratory birds, which every year alternate in millions be¬ 
tween different countries, and convey to and fro the seeds 
of plants preserved in their intestines or attached to their 
feathers. 




VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


41 


SEEDS FROM THE OCEAN. 

It is said by Prof. Agasiz that a bottle of sand taken 
from the bottom of the ocean, at a depth of 1,800 fath¬ 
oms, the spontaneons production of which was white 
clover. Why astone at its extensive productions here? 

Weight of Produce and Number of Seeds in a Bushel. 


Name. 

Wt. 

Name. 

No.^flb 

Wt 

Name. 

No.^lb 

Wt*. 

Irish Potatoes . . . 

60 

Wheat. . . 

10,500 

60 

White clover 

586,400 

50 

Sweet Potatoes . . 

55 

Barley . . . 

15.400 

48 

Broom corn. 

23,000 

30 

Turnips. 

59 

Corn-shelled 

1,280 

56 

Flaxseed . . 

108,000 

56 

S. Coal & R. Lime . 

80 

Corn—ear . 

70 

Corn meal . 

50 

Charcoal. 

23 

Oats .... 

20,000 

33 

Bran . . . 


20 

Dried Peaches . . . 

33 

Rye . . . 

22,000 

56 

Blue Grass . 


14 

Dried Apples . . . 

24 

Buckweat . 

25,000 

50 

Timothy 
Plst'rs Hair 

. . . .1 

45 

Onions. 

White Beans . . . 

57 

60 

Red clover . 

249,600 

69 


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Comparative value of wood for fuel and age of tree, 
taking shellbark hickory as the highest standard at 100. 



Age. 

220 

175 

140 

1,500 

800 


Age. 


Age. 

Shellbark Hickory 
White Ash .... 
Pig nut Hickory . 
White Oak . . . 
Scrub Oak .... 

100 

95 

90 

86 

84 

Hackberry. . . 180 
Red Oak . . . |70 
Walnut .... 165 
White Elm . . 58 
White Pine . . |30 

250 

1,080 

1,20 

335 

1,200 

Red Cedar . . 
White Cedar . 

Yew. 

Taxodum . . . 
Baobab .... 

56 

56 

1,500 

800 

2.880 

6,000 

5,150 


Origin of Various Trees, Plants and Shrubs. 

Wheat was brought from the central tableland of Thi¬ 
bet, Asia, where its representative yet exists as a grass 
with small mealy seeds 

Rye exists wild in Siberia. 

Oats wild in N. A. 

Barley wild in the mountains of Himalaya. 

Rice from South America. 

Millet from Egypt. 

Canary seed from Canary Island. 

Peas of an unknown origin. 

Garden bean from East Indies. 

Buckwheat from Siberia. 

Cabbage seed grow wild in Sicily. 

Hops, mustard and caraway wild in Germany. 

Onions from Egypt. 

Anise from Egypt. 

Tobacco a native of Virginia. 

The potato a native of Peru and Mexico. 

Hemp a native of Persia. 

Currant and gooseberry from Southern Europe. 
Cherry, plum and almond from Asia. 

















































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A COMPENDIUM OF 


Walnut, mulberry and peach from Persia. 

Horse chestnut, or buckeye, Constantinople 1600. 

Pine is a native of America. 

Quince from the Island of Crete. 

Cucumber from East Indies. 

The radish from China and Japan. 

Celery from Germany. 

Number of vegetable species known, 44,000. 

The number of yards contained in a mile in different 
countries—In England and America, 1,760; in Russia, 
1,100; in Germany, *5,866; in Scotland and Ireland, 
2,200; in Spain, 5,028; in Sweden and Denmark, 7,233. 

A League in England or America is 5,280 yards or 3 
miles. 

The number of rails, posts, pickets and hedge plants 
for one-fourth of a mile of fence.—With 10 feet rails, 8 
rails high, staked and riders, 3,630. 

Number of posts 6 feet apart, for plank of picket 
fence, 220. 

Number of pickets 3 inches apart, 3 inches wide, 4 
feet long, 2,640. 

Nunber feet for plank fence 5 boards high with cap, 
3 > 95 °- 

Number of hedge plants 6 inches apart, 2640. 

Why does a locomotive never sit down ? Because it 
has a tender behind. 

Words and Phrases Explained. 

A die.- -From that day on. 

Ad interim. —In the meanwhile. 

Ad valorem. —According to the value. 

Anno Domini. —In the year of Our Lord. 

Anno Mnndi. —In the year of the world. 

Anti. —Against. 

Bel Esprit. —A brilliant mind; a person of wit or 
humor. 

Defacto. —From the fact; really; bv one’s own au¬ 
thority. 

Ex Officio.-— By virtue of his office. 

Eureka. —I have found it. 

Fac Simile.— Make it; hence a close imitation. 

Per Centante. —For cash. 

DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS AND EVENTS B. C. 

Harps, pans, pipes, flutes, trumpets and tamborines 
were used 1,000 years B. C. Terpander, of Lebos, first 
reduced to rules the different modes of singing, 676 B.C. 


VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


43 


Alphabet 2122; ale, 404; anatomy, 420; arithmetic, 600; 
astronomy, 2234; bagpipe, 51; botany, 347; calendar, 738; 
census, 149°; dancing, 1534; engraving, 1491; harps, 
3874; oil in lamps, 1921; silver coin, 869; spinning,1500; 
vine planting by Noah, 2347; wine, 2347; writing, 2112. 
Appolonius, the first to reduce grammar to a system. 
Tubal Cain, son of Lamcet, discovered music and the art 
of working metals Electricty, 600; pumps, 224. 


DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS AND EVENTS A. D. 

Brick, 44; butter, 300; algebra, 200; saddles, 304; 
water mills, 555; small-pox, 900; Alcohol, 1100; window 
glass, 1180; chimneys, 1236; pipes for conveying water, 
spectacles, 1299; paper from linen, 1302; woolen cloth 
made in England, 1331; first comet discovered 1337; gun 
powder invented, 1340; first firearm used in battle, 1345; 
watches made in Germany, 1477 ; diving-bell invented 
1538; variation of the compass first noticed 1540; pins in 
England, 1543; circulation of human blood first discov¬ 
ered by Harvey; first steam engine, 1649; ^ rst cotton 
planted in the U. S., 1769; nitrogen gas by Rutherford, 
1772, oxygen, 1774; photographing, 1777, Sunday schools, 
1781; vaccination, 1796; telegraph, 1836; railroad engine, 
1802; carbolic acid, i860; sewing machine, 1847; first 
and most important rules for detecting counterfeit 
notes, discovered by H. T. Ham 1855. 

Necessity is the mother of invention. 


POSTAL RATES. 

Postage on letters to any part of the Union, 3 cents 
for every half ounce or fraction thereof; drop letters, 1 
cent, if free delivery, 2 cents. On books, merchandise, 
etc., limited to 4 pounds, so wrapped that contents may 
be seen, and nothing written except the address, 1 cent 
for each 2 ounces or fraction. All postage must be pre¬ 
paid. Registered letters 8 cents besides postage. Money 
orders cost 5 cents for every $10 00 or fraction. 

“Bob, how’s your gal gettin’ on?” “Pretty well, I 
guess. She says I needn’t call any more.” 

True to the last—a shoe-maker. 

Moving for a new trial—courting a second wife. 

A clock strikes in 24 hours 156 times. 

Gold has more worshippers than God. 


44 


A COMPENDIUM OF 


Length and Number of Nails in a Pound. 


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4 D |i % ini 270 

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6 D I 2 ini 175 1 

7 D 1 2 in | 112 1 
I 8 D I 2 y 2 ini iool 
1 9 D I3& in l 751 

10 D I 3 in 
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60 | 40 D |s in 

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It is very easy to say, take things as they come, but 
suppose they don't come. 

There was a beet at the Land Mark Office three and a 
half feet long. 

There is in Barry a radish six feet long, and another 
not so long. 

RULES AND MEASURES USED BY MECHANICS. 

A square is io feet square, or ioo square feet. 

A yard applied to plastering, 3 feet square or 9 square 
feet. 

A yard used in excavating a solid or cubic yard, 27 
cubic feet. 

A perch used in masonry is 1 foot in width, 1 foot 
high and 16^4 feet long. 

In carpentering, framing, flooring, siding and roofing 
are estimated by the square. To find the number of 
squares in either, multiply length by breadth and divide 
by 100. 

To ascertain the number of yards in plastering, mul¬ 
tiply length by breadth, and divide by 9. 

For 100 yards of plastering it will require 8 busnels of 
lime, 25 bushels of sand, 1 bushel of hair and 1,500 laths. 

Where studding are placed 16 inches apart, and the 
siding shows 4^4 inches, for 1 square siding will require 
216 nails. 

In 100 lights 10x16 sash, 55 feet lumber. 

In a 4 pannel 2—6x6=6 door, 19 feet lumber. 

In 100 4 P doors, there are 1,000 pins and 2,000 
wedges. 

In a brick flue i^4x2}4 brick, each foot in height will 
require 30 brick. 

POISON AND ITS ANTIDOTE. 

Antidote for an acid poison, is an alkili, and for an 
alkili an acid. 

To stop bleeding at the nose.—If bleeding from the 
right nostril, pass the fingers along the lower edge of the 
right jaw bone until the beating of an artery is felt, press 










VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


45 

it very hard for five minutes and the bleeding will cease. 

.The average temperature of the body is from 98 to 
100 

The maximum weight of a healthy brain is about 84 
ounces. 

The minimum weight 31 ounces. 

The skull is a hollow sphere. 

The eye is skeptical. 

The nose is triangular. 

The fingers are conical. 

The heart is a cave. 

The bones are hollow cylinders. 

Insects of various kinds may be seen in the cavities 
of a grain of sand. 

Butterflies are fully feathered. 

Hairs are hollow tubes. 

The surface of our bodies is covered with scales’ like 
a fish, 150 of which may be covered with a grain of sand, 
and each scale covers 500 pores. 

Each drop of stagnant water contains a world of ani¬ 
mated beings. 

Each leaf upon the trees has a colony of insects graz¬ 
ing on it like cows in a meadow. 

Take care as to the air you breathe, the food you eat, 
and the water you drink. 

Light travels 200,000 miles in a second. 

Water boils 212 0 ; ether 96°, alcohol 177 0 , oil turpen¬ 
tine 314 0 , sul. phur. acid 620°, whale oil 63® 0 . 

Mercury freezes at 38°, and is maleable under the 
hammer. 

The position of 7 days of the week will admit of 5040 
changes. 

Sound travels in the air at the rate of 1142 feet per 
second; in the water 4,960; in cast iron 1,100; in steel 
17,000; in glass 18,000, and from 10,000 to 17,000 in 
wood. 

The greatest height at which clouds are visible is ten 
miles. 

The violence of the expansion of water when freezing 
is equal to 28,000 pounds. 

During the conversion of ice into water 140° of heat 
is absorbed. 

Water, when converted into steam, increases in bulk. 

18,000 times 100 pounds of Dead Sea water contains 
46 pounds of salt. 

The explosive force of close confined gun powder is 
6J ton to the square inch. 


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48 A COMPENDIUM OF 


Presidents, Residence, When Inaugurated,Birth and Wealth. 


Presidents. 

Res. 

Born. 

In’gd 

Term. 

Died. 

Age 

Circumst’s at Death. 

G. Washington 

Vir. 

1732 

1789 

8 years. 

1799 

68 

$300,000. 

John Adams. . 

Vir. 

1732 

1797 

4 years. 

1799 

68 

Rich. 

Thos. Jefferson 

Vir. 

U 43 

1801 

8 years. 

1826 

83 

Bankrupt. 

James Madison. 

Vir. 

1751 

1809 

8 years. 

1836 

85 

Rich. 

James Monroe . 

Vir. 

1758 

1817 

8 years. 

1831 

72 

Buried at rl’tvs exp’se 

J. Q. Adams. . 

Mass. 

1767 

1825 

4 years. 

1848 

80 

$50,000. 

A. Jackson . . 

Tenn. 

1767 

1829 

8 years. 

1845 

78 

M’derate circumst'cs 

M. Van Buren. 

N. Y. 

1782 

1837 

4 years. 

2862 

79 

$300,000. 

W.H. Harrison 

Ohio. 

1773 

1841 

1 month 

1841 

68 


John Tyler . . 

Vir. 

1790 

1841 

3y urn 

1862 

72 

Wealthy. 

J. K. Polk. . . 

Tenn. 

*795 

1845 

4 years. 

1849 

54 

$150,000. 

Z. Taylor . . . 

La. 

1784 

r 849 

iy4m5d 

1850 

66 

$150,000. 

M. Filmore . . 

N. Y. 

1800 

1850 

2y7m26 



Is wealthy. 

F. Pierce . . . 

N.H. 

1804 

1853 

4 years. 

1869 

65 

$50,000. 

J. Buchanan. . 

Penn. 

I 79 I 

1857 

4 years. 

1868 

77 

$200,000. 

A. Lincoln. . . 

Ill. 

1809 

1861 

3y im 10 

1865 

56 

$75,000. 

A. Johnson . . 

Tenn. 

1808 

1865 

3yiom2o 



Worth $50,000. 

U. S. Grant . . 

Ill. 

1822 

1869 

4 years. 





Andrew Johnson, the only man ever elected to the 
Senate, after having served as President. 

It cost the U. S. to capture Capt. Jack, of Modoc no¬ 
toriety, $411,000. 

How much pain the evils have cost us that have never 
happened. 

Gen. F. M. Cockrill, the first native born Missourian 
ever elected U. S. Senator from this State. 

A man may be rich by accident or wise by nature ^ 
but if he is good, he must work for it. 

Railroads, and Their Signals. 

There are in the United States 75,000 miles of main 
road, and about 11,000 double and sidings, switches, &c. 
The number of ties used per mile, about 2,000, inclusive 
of culling. The average durability will not exceed ten 
years. The number of ties required for that length of 
time is 2,125 millions; the number for the annual supply 
must be 177,083,333, or 5,666,666,656 feet. This, be¬ 
sides the waste of hewing, together with amount required 
for fencing, fuel, Bridging and building is enormous. 

Watch your timber. ” 

Railway Signals. —One whistle signifies down breaks; 
2 whistles, off breaks; 3 whistles, back up ; continued 
whistles, danger ; Rapid, short whistles, cattle alarm. A 
sweeping parting of the hands on a level with the eyes, go 
ahead ; downward motion of the hands, with extended 
arms, stop; beckoning motion of one hand, back. Red 
flag waved on the track, danger; red flag stuck up by road 
side, danger ahead ; red flag at station, signal to stop. 
Lantern raised and lowered, signal to stop; lantern 

















VALUABLE INFORMATION. 49 

swung across the track, means stop; lantern swung in a 
circle, signal to back the train. 

A lawyer in Council Bluffs was fined #10 for eating pea 
nuts in court, The Judge remarked, that he would up¬ 
hold the majesty of the court if it broke all the pea nut. 
merchants of the South. 

BUSINESS LAWS. 

Ignorance of the law excuses no one. It is a frand to 
conceal a fraud. The law compels no one to do impossi¬ 
bilities. An agreement without consideration is void. A 
receipt for money paid is not legally conclusive. The: 
act of one partner binds all the others. Contracts made 
on Sunday cannot be enforced. A contract made with a 
minor is void. Contracts for advertisements in Sunday 
newspapers, invalid. A contract made with a lunatic: is 
void. Principals are responsible for the acts of their 
agents. Agents responsible to principals for errors. Each' 
individual in a partnership is responsible for the whole of 
a debt. A note given by a minor is void. Notes bear: 
interest only when so stated. It is not legally necessary 
to say on a note, for value received. A note drawn on. 
Sunday is void. 

A note obtained by fraud or from a person intoxicated 
cannot be collected. If a note be lost or stolen it does 
not release the maker. An indorser of a note is exempt 
from liability, if not served with a notice o ( its dishonor, 
within 24 hours of its non-payment. 

The right thing in the right place. 

Read not books alone but men. 

Keep in mind the necessity of putting everything inr 
its right place, that you may be able to find it at all times. 

Postage stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, &c., 
issued by the Department during the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1873: Postage stamps, 601,931,520, value,. 
#16,681,189; stamped envelopes, 65,014,600, value,. 
$1,722,512 ; stamped envelopes request, 52,201,250, value,. 
$1,544,567.50; postal cards, 31,094,000, value, #310,940. 
Total number, 764,198,120, total value, #20,399,776.50. 

Liquor Distilled, and its Consequences. 

There is consumed every year in the United States, 
distilled liquors to the amount of 42 million gallons, 186 
million gallons fermented liquors, and 100 million gal¬ 
lons of imported liquor, the value of which is estimated 
at 500 million dollars. Great Britain has, in the last ten 
years, for intoxicating liquors, spent an amount equal to 



5 ° 


A COMPENDIUM OF 


her national debt, which is about 4,850 million dollars 
annually 487 mil ,which is an average of $65 to each adult. 
N.‘Y. City sells $80,000 worth of liquor per day, $2,400,- 
000 per month, and $28,800,000 annually. In Ireland, 
with all their cry of poverty, they spend yearly for intoxi¬ 
cating liquors, an amount equal to $37.50 to each family, 
or a total of $40,813,785. 

The whole liquor trade of the world per day is 
$1,860,000. 

The amount expended for intoxicating liquors in four 
days will exceed the annual aggregate of all evangelical 
churches for foreign missions in one year. 

In the last twenty years the churches in America, in 
all benevolent, philanthropic and educational enterprises, 
have spent thirty million dollars. The grand aggregate 
in the world for benevolent and kindred societies, sixty 
million dollars. 

Distances and Differences in Time Between St. Louis and 
Other Cities. 


When it is 12 o’clock at St. 
distance sn miles, 1,096. 


Louis at Richmond it is 12:50^, 


At New York 
At Philadelphia 
At Boston 
At Montreal 
At New Orleans 
At Washington 
At Chicago 
At Cincinnati 
At Indianapolis 
At Louisville 
At Mobile 
At Nashville 
At Detroit 
At Jefferson City 
Little Rock 
At San Francisco 
At Paris, France 
At London, England 


it is 


1:04 

P. M., 

1,043 

12:59^ 

44 

974 

1: 16 

44 

1,225 

1:05 

a 

1,129 

12:00 

44 

722 

12:52 

44 

951 

12:09 

44 

280 

12:22 

44 

340 

12:15 

44 

238 

12:17 

44 

302 

12:08 

44 

666 

12:13 

44 

285 

12:28 

44 

565 

11:51 

A. M., 

125 

11:51 

44 

923 

9:54 

44 

2,353 

6:09 

P. M., 

4,296 

6:00 

4 4 

4,116 


MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 

Milch cows should have free access at all times to run¬ 
ning water, and never be heated by being run. To pre¬ 
vent a cow from spitting the corn, feed her in a trough 3 
feet from the ground. 

To Ascertain the Weight of a Steer by Measurement. 

Multiply the girth round the body behind the shoul¬ 
der, in inches, by the length from root of tail to front of 
shoulder, in inches, and divide the product by 144. If 










VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


51 

the girth is less than three feet, multiply this quotient by 
11, from 3 to 5 feet inclusive, multiply by 16; over 5 feet 
and not more than 7, by 23 ; over 7 and not over 9, bv 
31 ; this result is the gross weight in pounds. 

If the animal is lean, deduct 1-20 from the result. 
The gross weight multiplied by ,605 approximates the net 
weight. 

Rule to Square a Number Consisting of 9 s —Write as 
many 9s less one as the number has 9s, then an 8, then as 
many Os less one as the number has 9s, then a figure 1. 
Ex.—9999x9999 equal to 99980001. 


Number of Trees on an Acre at Various Distances. 


At 4 feet apart each way, 2,720 
At 5 “ “ “ “ 1,449 

At 6 ** “ “ “ 1,200 

At 8 “ “ “ “ 689 

At 10 “ “ “ “ 430 

At 12 “ “ “ “ 325 


At 15 feet apart each way, 200 
At 18 “ “ “ “ 135 

At 20 “ “ “ “ 1 IQ 

At 25 “ “ “ “ 70 

At 30 “ “ “ “ 50 


Table Showing Number of Gallons Contained in a Cistern. 

For any diameter, from 2 to 25 ft., for each ten inches in 
depth : 


Diam. 

Gal. 

Diam. 

Gal. 

Diam. 

Gal. 

2 ft, 10 in. deep, 19 

6 ft, 10 in 

. deep, 176 

12 ft, 10 in. deep, 

70S 


“ 30 

7 “ “ 

“ 240 

13 “ 

827 

3 “ “ 

“ 44 

8 “ 

“ 313 

14 “ “ 

959 

3'/z 

“ 60 

9 « “ 

“ 396 

15 “ “ “ 

1,101 

4 “ “ 

“ 78 

10 “ “ 

“ 489 

20 << “ “ 

i ,958 

A'/z 

“ 99 

11 “ “ 

“ 592 

25 “ 

3,059 

5 “ “ 

“ 122 





The 

number 

of times 

that ten 

is contained in 

the 


depth of your cistern, in inches, is multiplied by the num¬ 
ber opposite the corresponding diameter of your cistern, 
which is the number of gallons contained. 

VALUABLE RULES, RECIPES, &C. 

The following mixture is said to be a sure cure for 
cholera: Laudanum, 2 oz. ; spirits of camphor, 2 oz. ; 
tincture of capsicum, *4 oz. ; tincture of ginger, 1 oz. ; 
essence of peppermint, 2 oz. ; Hoffman’s anodyne 2 oz. ; 
half the quantity of sulphuric ether may be substituted 
for the anodyne. Mix thoroughly and shake well. Dose, 
10 to 30 drops, according to the violence of the attack, 
every 20 minutes. 




















52 


A COMPENDIUM OF 


Hog Cholera Cured in Every Case. 

Take of madder, resin, powdered sulphur and saltpe¬ 
tre each one pound; copperas, black antimony and arsenic 
each one-half pound ; powdered asafcetida, one-fourth 
pound. Pulverize and thoroughly mix and add one-third 
the quantity in bulk of salt, then add an equal bulk of 
good ashes. When thoroughly mixed give to each hog i 
tablespoonful twice a day. When the hog begins to im¬ 
prove give the same dose once a day, then twice a week. 

To Measure Corn in the Shuck, in Bulk. 

If the corn is indifferent, divide the cubic inches in 
the enclosure by 28,666.6, the result will be the amount 
in barrels. Deduct one half for cob, and one-fourth for 
shuck, or divide the cubic feet by j6 .6, the product will 
be number of barrels, with deductions made. If the corn 
is good, divide the cubic inches by 27,234 or the cubic 
feet by 15.77. 

To Ascertain the Number Bushels of Grain in a Box or Pen. 

Multiply together the length, breadth and depth, in 
inches, and divide by 2,150 (the number of cubic inches 
in a bushel), the product will be the number of bushels. 

If it be corn in the ear, 5-12 of the product will be 
the number of bushels of corn. 

Another—Divide the sum of the cubic feet in bulk of 
•corn in shuck by 3. 

If shucked corn, divide the sum by 2, the product will 
be the number of bushels. 

Black Ink .—Pulverized Nutgall, 3 oz ; copperas 1 oz.; 
rasped logwood, 1 oz.; vinegar, 1 quart. Mix and shake 
frequently for 12 days, then add gum Arabic and white 
sugar, each 1 oz. Leave the bottle open one week, then 
cork tight for use. 

Another—To one quart boiling water add one-fourth 
of an ounce of extract of logwood and 24 grains bi-chro¬ 
mate of potash. 

A Felo?i Cured at any Stage .—Place a few bright coals 
in an oyster can, upon which put a handful of brown su¬ 
gar. Confine the smoke so as as to concentrate the same 
upon the finger or thumb held over it. Hold 15 minutes. 
Try it. 

PROMISCUOUS ITEMS. 

Rates of Travel .—A man walks 7 miles per hour. A 
horse trots 12 miles per hour. A horse runs 20 miles per 
hour. A steamboat runs 18 miles per hour. A sailing 


VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


53 

vessel travels io miles per hour. A river flows 7 miles per 
hour. A storm moves 36 miles per hour. A rifle ball 
moves i,ooo per hour. Electricity moves 288,000 per 
hour. 

A cord of dry hickory wood weighs 4,469 pounds. A 
cord of dry white oak wood weighs 3,821 pounds. A 
cord of dry ash wood weighs 3,450 pounds. A cord of 
dry red oak wood weighs 3,254 pounds. A cord of black 
oak wood weighs 2,919. A cord of dry linn or cotton¬ 
wood weighs 2,375. A cubic foot of white pine weighs 
30 pounds. A cubic foot of yellow pine weighs 36 
pounds. A cubic foot of green oak weighs 60 pounds. 
A cubic foot of dry oak weighs 45 pounds. 

A box 24x16 in. and 28 in. deep contains five bushels. 
A box 28x15^ in. and 8 in. deep, one bushel. A box 
12x11^4 in. and 8 in. deep, one-half bushel. A box 8 x 8*4 
in. and 8 in. deep, one peck—small grain. 

Rules Applicable to Corn Cribbs and Hay Ricks , as 
used at Ft. Leavenworth. —To ascertain the contents of a 
crib of corn, without shuck, multiply the length, breadth 
and height of crib and divide by 2*4 will give the num 
ber of bushels. 343 cubic feet of well-settled prairie hay r 
one ton; 275 cubic feet of well-settled Timothy or clover, 
one ton. When the hay is in smaller stacks or not so well 
settled, 420 cubic feet of prairie and 336 of Timothy one 
ton. 

When pork sells for 4 cents per pound, it brings 32 
cents per bushel in corn. When pork sells for 5 cents per 
pound, it brings 52^ cents per bushel in corn. 

One bushel of corn will make n pounds of pork, 
gross. 

To Find the Number of Bushels of Apples or Potatoes 
in a Bin. -Multiply together the length, breadth and height 
of the bin, and this product by 8, and point off one figure 
in the product for decimals 

If you want fresh, ripe tomatoes until Christmas, take 
your vines having green tomatoes on (before injured by 
frost) and lay them in a cellar and they will ripen as well 
as in the gardep. 

If a board, one foot square, be placed one foot from a 
lighted candle the shadow upon the wall, 9 feet from the 
candle, would be 9 feet square. In this way you may 
transfer a pattern upon paper, increasing the size propor¬ 
tionately to whatever dimensions desired and mark the 
shadow’s edge. 



54 


A COMPENDIUM OF 


CONGRESSIONAL TOWNSHIP. 

A Congressional Township is 6 miles square and con¬ 
tains 36 sections^ 1 mile square. 

Townships number from South to North, in Mo, 
range 6 miles square and number from East to West. 

Sections begin number at North-east corner of town¬ 
ship. 

Section, 640 acres; half section, 320 acres; fourth sec¬ 
tion, 160 acres; eighth section, 80 acres; sixteenth sec¬ 
tion, 40 acres. 


6 

5 

4 

3 

N.W.I N.E. 

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7 

8 

9 

10 

II 

12 

1 

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17 

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20 

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22 

1 

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24 

30 

29 28 

27 

26 

25 

3 i 

I | 

32 j 33 

34 

35 

36 


The tract (40 acres) described thus: N. E. N. E. S. 1. 
T. 51, R. 33. 

The 80 acres, W J N E. 1, T. 51, R. 33. 

The 160 acres, S. E. 1, T. 51, R. 33. 

Township North of this 52 R. 33. 

South •* CO R. 72 . 

East •• 51 R. 32. 

West •• 51 R. 34. 


































VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


55 


A VARIETY OF VALUABLES. 

A man at the age of 50 has slept 6,000 days, walked 
800 days, amused himself 3,000 days, worked 7,250 days, 
spent 2,200 in eating and has been sick 500 days. He 
has eaten 14,000 pounds of bread, 11,000 pounds of meat, 
and 4,000 pounds of vegetables, fish, etc., and drank 
7,000 gallons of liquids. 

A man may forget his business, his family and all the 
sacred obligations of life, but he always remembers where 
he got that counterfeit bill. If you are familiar with the 
rules you have not had it. 

A postal card from R. D. Miller to Dan. Carpenter, 
Barry, upon which were distinctly written 1,500 words, in 
addition to .which was contained the letter I 24 times, 
letter a 14 times, and the character & 16 times, and also 
11 figures. There were none as lengthy as the following: 
Incommunicability, incomprehensibility. 

First locomotive in America, 1830. 

First steamboat in U. S., 1800. 

The palindrome is aline that reads alike backward and 
forward, the^ first used in Adam’s observation to Eve, 
“Madam, I’am Adam.” 

The best in the language is the following. Napoleon, 
when at St. Helena, being asked by an Englishman if he 
could have sacked London, replied, “Able was I ere I 
saw Elba.” 

AN INFALLIBLE CURE FOR FITS. 

The following will be found useful in many localities, 
as the party from whom it was received is a citizen of 
Platte county, and perfectly reliable, who states that the 
recipe has been in the family over 100 years, and that it 
has been applied in many instances with perfect success, 
never having failed in one. 2 oz red centaury root, 2 oz 
sarvis bark, 2 oz cedar tops, 2 oz sassafras bark, 2 oz 
horse radish root, *4 lb anvil dust, 2 oz black mustard 
seed. Mix thoroughly with 2 gallons of pure apple vine¬ 
gar, well shaken for nine days, when it is ready for use. 
Dose, 1 gill 3 times a day before eating. Whilst using 
the above the use of spirits and meats especially forbid¬ 
den. 

MULTUM IN PARVO. 

Statistics of the Race. 

The yearly mortality of the globe is 33 , 333,333 Per¬ 
sons, or 81,050 per day, 3,800 per hour and 63 per min¬ 
ute. Each pulsation of the heart marks the decease of a 





A COMPENDIUM OF 


56 

human creature. This loss is compensated by an equal 
number of births. The average human life is 33 years. 
One-fourth of the population dies at or before the 7th 
year; one-half at or before 17. Out of 10,000 persons, 
only 1 reaches ioo years, 1 in 500 attains the age of 80, 
and 1 in 100 lives to the age of 60. 

Married men live longer than single ones. 

In 1,000 persons 95 marry. 

A tall man is likely to live longer than a short one. 

The months of June and December are those in which 
marriages are most frequent. 

Births and deaths chiefly occur at night. 

A Monster Time Piece .—The large clock at the Eng¬ 
lish House of Parliament, is the largest in the world. 
The four dials are 22 feet in diameter, and it takes 2 
hours to wind it. The pendulum is 15 feet long, the 
hour bell 5 feet high and 9 feet in diameter, weighing 
nearly 15 tons, and the hammer weighs over 400 pounds. 

The dome of the capitol at Washington, the only 
considerable dome of iron in the world,“weighs 8,000,000 
pounds, and is 108 feet higher than the Washington Mon¬ 
ument in Baltimore. The cost of it was about 
$1,500,000. 

The brain is in two halves; one may retire from active 
service and the other go on. 

We may lose an eye, an arm, or a leg, and not get off 
the track, but we only have one stomach, and if that gets 
off the track we are all wrong. Take care of it. 

If air be admitted into a vein it produces death in a 
few minutes 

Josh Billings says, “There ain’t enything that will 
kompletely kure laziness, but a second wife has been 
known to hurry it sum.” 

There are two things not safe to trifle with—A 
woman’s opinion and the business end of a wasp. 

Ths total number of persons born in Germany, resid¬ 
ing in the U. S., 1,690,553; residing in Missouri 118,618. 

There are 147 towns in the U. S. named for George 
Washington. 

The Shortest and Best Rule in America for Computing 
Interest. 

Six per cent.—Multiply the number of dollars by the 
number of days at interest, separate the right hand figure 
and divide by 6, the result the interest at 6. 

Eight per cent.—Multiply as above and divide by 45, 
the result will be the interest at 8 per cent. 


VALUABLE INFORMATION. 


57 

Ten per cent.—Multiply the same as above and divide 
by 36, the result will be the interest at 10 per cent. 

The above are true, there being no fractions in it. 

If a farmer, merchant or mechanic saves only 2^ 
cents per day (which is often done by the use of short 
rules) from the time he is 21 until he is three score and 
ten, the aggregate with the interest, will amount to 
$2,900. 

A familiarity with the detecting rules and the interest 
rules, are two leading essentials in a business qualifica¬ 
tion. 

One to-day is worth two to-morrow. The rules to¬ 
day, the money to-morrow. 

Table Showing the Number of Days from Any Date in 
One Month to the Same Date in Any Other Month—In 
Leap Year Add One Day to February if Included. 


FROM 


2 zi 


> g 
2. x I 


c ? >. 

£ i ‘S' eg j 

I! 


O 2 


g 1 5 - 
3 « 


January. .. 
February . 

March. 

April. 

May. 

June. 

July. 

August. 

September 

October.... 

November 

December. 


365 3i| 59! 90 
334 3^5! 28 59 

306337365; 3 i 
275 306 334 36.5 
245 276 304 335 
214 245 273 304 
184215 243274 

153 l 84 ' 2 I 2 | 


1 I o 

[20 151,181 212 
89|l20 150181 
6l I 92^ 1 2,2, I 53 
30 


365 | 


22 153181 
92 123'151 
61 j 92' 120 
31 62 1 90 


61! 91422 
_ 311 61 92 

334 b 65 ! 30; 61 
3°4 335 365 ; 3i 
2 73'3 0 4 334A65 
212;242;273 3031334 
182 

151 

121 


243 , 


212 2 4 3 j 273!304 

l8l 2I2'242|273 
I5I l82'2I2 243 


243 273 
212 242 
184 214 
153 183 
123 153 
92 122 
62 92 
3 1 61 

365 30 
335 365 
304 334 
274 304 


304 
2 73 
245 
214 
184 
153 
123 
92 
61 
3 i 

365 

435 


334 

303 

275 

244 

214 

183 

153 

122 

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USEFUL TO FARMERS. 

A Rule for Measuring Land .—Take two slats about 6 
feet long, sharpen one end of each, lay them down like a 
pair of open compasses with the points 5feet apart, 
and nail together the other ends, and a piece across from 
one to the other about four feet from the points, forming 
a letter A. Three steps with this machine make a rod. 
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ground, allowing every third step to make a rod, then 
multiply together the two numbers in rods and divide by 
160 (the number of square rods in an acre) the result will 
be the number of acres. 

Every farmer has realized the importance of knowing 
the number of acres contained in each field, that he may 
know something of the yield per acre, and the number of 
shocks of corn to each field. 

There are in one square acre 160 square rods, 4,840 
square yards, or 43,360 square feet. 

Where corn rows are 3^ feet apart and the shocks 16 
hills square, 13^ shocks per acre. 

Where corn rows are 4 feet apart and the shoeks 16 
hills square, 10 2-5 shocks per acre. 

Where corn rows are 4 y 2 feet apart and the shocks 16 
hills square, shocks per acre. 

Rule for ascertaining approximately the number of 
bushels of growing small grain per acre —Nail together 4 
strips 1 foot square in the clear; take it into a field of 
wheat, oats or rye; after trying it in several places, select 
an average place of the crop and drop it over as many 
stalks as it will conveniently inclose; count the number of 
stalks and the grains of an average stalk, multiply them 
together, which gives the number of grains per square 
foot, which number multiply by 43,560 (the number of 
square feet per acre) which gives the number of seed per 
acre, then refer to grain table, see number grains per 
pound and multiply that by the number of pounds per 
bushel, and divide the number of seeds per acre by the 
number of seeds per bushel, which gives a near approxi¬ 
mation to the number of bushels per acre—nearer than 
you can guess to it. 

When corn ground is marked 4 feet apart and dropped 
3 grains to the hill, it requires pounds per acre, or 
about 1 bushel to 9 acres. 

Sugar cane and broom corn 2 quarts per acre. 

The nearer square you have your fields the less fencing 
required. 

10 acres, 40x40 rods, requires 160 rods fence; 10 acres, 
20x80 rods, takes 200 rods fence. 

SAVE YOUR HOGS. 

The following is recommended by substantial farmers 
and hog growers, as being almost an infallible cure for 
hog cholera: 2 lbs unslacked lime, 1 lb sal soda, 6 oz 
mandrake root, 6 oz Carlott root, 6 oz salt petre, 6 oz 
copperas, 6 oz ginger and 6 oz sulphur. Put into an 


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earthen vessel and pour in 2 gallons of boiling water and 
cover closely to retain the steam, when cold add 8 oz 
tinct asafoetida. Dose to the hog : 3 oz every six hours, 
given in a quart of slop. Three or four doses will be 
found to be sufficient. 

PREVENTIVE OF SAME. 

The following may be successfully used as as a pre¬ 
ventative against the cholera where neighbors’ hogs are 
dying with it : 2 bu unslacked lime, 2 bu stone coal, 2 bu 
salt, 4 lb sal soda, 1 lb mandrake root, ground, 1 lb salt 
petre, 1 lb copperas, 1 lb ginger and 1 lb sulphur. Mix 
thoroughly in a large shallow box, giving the hogs access 
to it, which will be found to be a substantial preventa¬ 
tive. 

CORD WOOD—To Ascertain the Number of Cords in a 
Pile or Rick of Wood. 

First—Make your ricks straight, and the same height 
from bottom to top. Multiply together the length, breadth 
and height and divide by 128, the number of feet in a 
cord, and the result will be the number of cords. 

To ascertain the required depth of a wood frame that 
will contain a half or cord of wood, when the length and 
breadth are given. Multiply the length by the breadth 
in feet, and the result divide by 128, the product the 
depth required for 1 cord. If one-half cord frame is re¬ 
quired, multiply as above, and by the result divide 64, 
the number of feet in a half cord. If fractional parts of 
feet, multiply length and breadth in inches and divide 
221,184 (the cubic inches in a cord) by the result. 

Smoke your meat with good hickory wood, and throw 
on a few peppers; when your meat is thoroughly smoked, 
dip it in a strong pepper tea, boiling hot; when nearly dry 
pepper thoroughly with black pepper and hang up. 

The diet of nine-tenths of the adult population of the 
U. S. is that which is most unhealthy—biscuit, coffee and 
fried bacon. 

RHEUMATISM REMEDIABLE BY INSULATION. 

It is stated by eminent physicians that the insulation 
of beds by placing the legs of the bedsteads in four glass 
tumblers, will effect a permanent cure for rheumatism and 
other similar diseases. As magnetism exerts a powerful 
influence in the development of such diseases, a cure for 
the same may be readily effected by the use of the tumb¬ 
lers, which serve as non -conductors of magnetism. Place 


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the head of your bed to the north or south, with the four 
legs of the bed-stead each in a glass tumbler, which will 
be found to afford speedy relief. Try it. 

CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA. 

J. W. Seccomb, of Chicago, discloses the following 
facts. Pro bono publico. For the efficacy and truthful¬ 
ness of which you are referred to S. C. Criggs & Co., or 
Jansen, McClurg & Co. of that city: Put one ounce of 
blue skull cap (scuttellaria), which may be found in any 
drug store, in one quart of hot water. An adult may 
drink nearly a gill once in two hours, in case the patient 
commences drinking the fourth or fifth day, but in case 
of delay till nearly time for the fits to come on (nine 
days), he may drink nearly twice that quantity. Lay the 
dregs on the wound after being steeped, this will be found 
serviceable. Let the food be light and nourishing; ex¬ 
ercise moderately; half table-spoonful of sulphur every 
morning, and continue for twenty days. 

RIDDLE. 

Beneath the skies a creature once did dwell, 

So sacred writers unto us did tell. 

He lived, he breathed, in this vain world, ’tis true; 

Though he ne’er sin’d or any evil know, 

He never shall in Heaven’s high kingdom dwell, 

Or e’er be doomed to feel the pangs of Hell, 

Yet in him an immortal soul there was 
That must be damned or live among the just. 

Answer—The species of ichtoyology that took into 
his stomach Jonah. 

ABSTRACTS AND IDEAS. 

To Make Castor Oil Palatable. 

For children : Boil with an equal quantity of milk 
and a little sugar; stir it well and let it cool. For adults : 
Beat it up thoroughly with the white of an egg, and sprinkle 
with pepper. 

A receipt is not conclusive evidence of payment, but 
it throws the burden of proof upon him who attempts to 
impeach it. 

To get a horse out of a fire, throw the harness on him 
as usual for service. 

An instrument in the form of a deed, but limited to 
take effect at the death of the grantor, is held to be a 
deed, not a will. 

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it that an alteration of the date, bv the holder after exe¬ 
cution, makes the instrument void. 

Every male citizen over the age of 21 years, and every 
head of a family is entitled to a homestead entry of 160 
acres, beyond the limits of railroad grants, or 80 acres 
within the limits. 

A perfect title to a homestead entry is obtained by a 
proof of residence upon the land and cultivation of same 
for five years. 

Soldiers in the U. S. army in the late war may deduct 
the time of their service from the five years residence re¬ 
quired, and may enter 160 acres within railroad limits. 

Persons having made one homestead entry are de¬ 
barred from ever after making another, except soldiers 
who made an entry of less than 160 acres prior to June 
8, 1872, and may enter a quantity together with the orig¬ 
inal equal to 160 acres. 

A homesteader abandoning a tract for more than six 
months at any one time, thereby forfeits his claim. 

A tract may be homesteaded for the use of an adjoin¬ 
ing farm, in which case proof of residence on the adjoin¬ 
ing farm only is necessary. 

Any tract which has never been entered or marked as 
such upon the books at the Land Office, may be entered 
for cash at the regular Government price $1 25 without 
the limits of a Government grant to a railroad, and $2 50 
within. 

All land patents issued upon tracts entered at Platts- 
burg and Lexington are now in Washington, except those 
applied for. 

Profitable .—The Chinese sugar cane is a profitable 
crop. Ordinary soil produces about 3 barrels per acre. 
It requires to raise it about the same amount of labor as 
corn. Five men will manufacture 1 acre or 3 barrels per 
day, and it is ready sale at all times at 50 cents per gal¬ 
lon, equal to #60 per acre and three times the value of 
the land upon which it grows. 

In a series of three numbers the (mean term) 2 is — to 
the product -|- the (common difference) 2. 

8J lbs cheese at 8^ cents per lb—8 one extreme 9 the 
other, 8J mean, y 2 common difference. First : 8x9 =72 
-I- i z i= 7 zi- Example. 

To multiply by 2 is the same as to multiply by 10 and 
divide by 5. 

There is something curious in the properties of the 
number 9. Any number multiplied by 9 produces a sum 
of figures yrhich, added together, continually makes 9, 


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For example, all the first multiples of 9 as 18, 27, 36, 45, 
63, 72, 81, sum up 9. Thus: 1 and 8 are 9, 2 and 7, 3 
and 6, etc. Each of these numbers multiplied by any 
number whatever, produces the same result. 

An Exercise Without Slate or Pencil. —Ask a person 
to think of a figure, then ask him to double it, then add 
a certain figure to it, now halve the whole sum and sub¬ 
tract from that the figure first thought of, then tell 
the thinker the remainder. 

Key—One half of whatever sum you require to be 
added is the remainder. 

Example—7 thought of, double 14, added 10 = 24, 
half of 24 = 12, subtract 7, the number thought of re¬ 
maining. 

Sprinkle and roll your wheat seven times. 

Dry March for corn. 

EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS, 

Number children within school age, 12,824,847 
libraries, public and private, 164,815. 

“ volumes in libraries, 45,528,938. 

“ Colleges, 3,902. 

** pupils attending same, 73,844. 

“ collegiaet graduates in 42d Congress, 111. 

“ illiterate over ten years old, 5,658,144. 

Average teacher’s wages in Idaho, $162.50 
li “ u North Carolina, $25. 

Number public schools in U. S., 74,174. 

“ children between 5 and 21 in Mo., 705,817. 

“ of boys “ “ “ “ 364,131. 

“ public schools in Missouri, 7,829. 

** of teachers ** “ 9,676. 

School expenditures for 1874, $72,630,269 83. 

Why are all political editors economical mechanics ? 
Because they make great men out of small material. 

Freight. —The cost of conveying a ton of freight on 
the Ocean, ^ to 1% cents per mile; on the lakes, 2 
cents; on the river, 2 to 3 cents ; on the canals, 2 to 5 
cents; on the railroads, 3 to 4 cents. 

The first railway was built in Northumberland, Eng¬ 
land, in 1750. There is over 75,000 miles of railroad in 
the United States. 

Out of 307 million people carried on English rail¬ 
roads, in 1869, only 17 were killed by causes beyond their 
own control, while in the streets of London 140 persons 
were killed. 

It is estimated that the orange peel on the London 



VALUABLE INFORMATION. 63 

pavements kills more people than all the English rail¬ 
roads. 

A wise man may be at a loss where to begin a conver¬ 
sation, but a fool never knows where to stop. 

There are 512 daily, 4,425 weekly, 277 monthly pub¬ 
lications, newspapers &c., in the United States. 

A Billion. What is it? If you were to count 200 per 
minute, it would require 19,024 years, 68 days, 10 hours, 
and 40 minutes to count a billion. 

Fish have great tenacity of life. A pike was caught in 
a lake in South Germany, in 1497, in which was found a 
ring bearing this inscription, “I am the fish which was 
put into this lake by the hands of the Governor of the 
Universe, Frederick II., October, 1230. ” It weighed 
350 pounds, and was 19 feet long. 

MISCELLANY. 

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, 
but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and is a high 
wall in his own conceit. 

Gold has more worshipers than God. 

Many a man has nothing to wear. 

Because his father was a millionaire. 

To-day he’s clad in gaudy, rich array— 

To-morrow shrouded for a bed of clay. 

A cubic inch of gold is worth $210, a cubic foot 
#362,880. A cubic foot of gold weighs 1,218.75, a cubic 
foot of silver, 656.25. 

At the commencement of the Christian era there was 
427 million dollars of gold in the world, now the amount 
of gold in use is estimated at six billion dollars. 

All this in one mass would only make a cube of 26 feet. 

CORN RAISING MONOPOLIZED. 

Two men named Peck and Pig having mutually agreed 
that the former is very essential in the measurement of 
corn, and the latter occupying a prominent place among 
the consumers, have determined, if possible, to monopo¬ 
lize corn growing the coming season. With a view to 
that end, they have procured the ground formerly known 
as the old turnpike bed. They have their plows sharp 
and are ready for business as soon as it rains. If it re¬ 
quires four of the former to make one bushel of corn, how 
many of the same kind is required to make corn enough 
to fatten the latter, his present weight being one hundred 
and fifty pounds, and where’l they get ’em. 


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OLD AGE. 

Peter Gay of Augusta, Maine, born 1776, aged 99 
years, has a little son Elijah, who is 71 and likely to live 
to an old age. 

Mrs. Rilief Hayden, of the same State, who is 81 and 
has eleven children, all living, their ages ranging from 38 
to 64. From June 20 to December 31, 1872, she spun 
160 skeins of yarn, knit 39 pairs of stockings, 20 pairs of 
mittens and did quilting enough to make a Fifth Avenue 
Miss go raving mad. 

Capt. James Kipp, an ex member of the old American 
Fur Company, and now near Barry, Platte county, Mo., 
was born 1788, aged 87 years. He was 41 years in the 
mountains among the Indians. Capt. K. is lively and 
active as you will find one in twenty at the age of 60 , 
he writes his own name without spectacles, rides as straight 
as an Indiam and very often in a gallop. There is 
scarcely a day but he is on horseback and often rides ten 
to fiften miles a day. 



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Certificates. 6 

Rules for Detecting Counterfeit Bank Notes. 7 

Chronological Tables. 13 

Facts from the Bible. 27 

Geneaology of Ham. 30 

Great Wonders of the World. 31 

Masonry and its Antiquties. 34 

Astronomical Items. 34 

Geographical Items. 35 

Philosophical Facts. 36 

Mathematical . 37 

Medical and Surgical Items. 37 

Agricultural Clippings. 38 

Fictitious Names Explained..,. 39 

Seeds. 40 

Discoveries, B. C. and A. D. 42 

Postal Rates. 43 

Rules and Measures. 44 

Miscellaneous Information . 44 

States, Names, Population, Etc. 46 

Presidents U. S. 48 

Rail Roads. 48 

Business^ Law. 49 

Liquor Distilled and Consequences. 49 

Distances and Differences of Time... 5 ° 

Miscellaneous Collections. 5 ° 

Number of Trees on Acre. 5 1 

Capacity of Cisterns. 5 1 

Valuable Rules, Tables, Etc. 5 1 

Hog Cholera. 5 2 

Measurement for Corn . 5 2 

Promiscuous Items. 5 2 

Corn and Fruit Measurement. 53 

W 7 eight of Wood . 53 

Government Survey, Etc. 54 

Variety of Valuables. 55 

Fits Cured. 55 

Multum in Parvo.. 55 









































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INDEX. 


Rule for Computing Interest. 5 ^ 

Table of Days and Dates. 57 

Useful to Farmers. 57 

Amount of Grain per Acre and Hog Cholera. 5 & 

Cord Wood... 59 

Rheumatism Cured by Insulation . 59 

Cure for Hydrophobia. 6o 

Biblical Riddle . 6o 

Abstracts and Ideas . 6o 

SugarCane. 6i 

Educational Statistics. 62 

Miscellany. 63 

Corn Raising Monopolized... 63 

Old Age. 64 






































































































































































































































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